If that approach had been followed - onus on the company - there could have been no such thing as search engines on the scale of Google or Bing. Unless you like

If that approach had been followed - onus on the company - there could have been no such thing as search engines on the scale of Google or Bing. Unless you like your search engine with a few million pages instead of a trillion. Much of the foundation of the content Web rests on the notion of asking forgiveness later (so to speak), rather than permission first.