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Great! I assume you believe all search engines should be illegal then?

• ghoward 4y ago
  Search engines don't sell the information of others; they sell certain metadata of that information, namely, the location of that information.
  • ghaff 4y ago
    And excerpts of that information in many cases.
• belorn 4y ago
  Accessing a computer system without permission is illegal. Search engines operate under the assumption that they have permission to access any public available server unless explicitly forbidden. If a company or person assume they got copyright permission to any work public accessible then they will quickly find out that such assumption is wrong, and that they require explicit permission.
  • ghaff 4y ago
    >Search engines operate under the assumption that they have permission to access any public available server unless explicitly forbidden. And why should opt-out be a reasonable norm? To be clear, the internet (among many other things) breaks down if every exchange of information is opt-in. Sharing of photographs taken in public places is another example. But the internet basically functions because people share information on an opt-out basis (that may or may not even be respected).