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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Every thread makes me feel good. What doesn't make me feel good is the idea of picking and choosing which forms of copyright to abide by.
Yes google has convinced the courts that caching of webpages for search purposes does not infringe on copyright but I am not sure that caching of rss feeds for sending to an ereader does not. By the court's logic then Calibre is a tool for enabling the piracy of web content, by mobileread's logic links to the program should be deleted.
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RSS feeds can contain as much or as little content as a publisher wants. If they don't want to "give away" their content, their RSS feed can consist of nothing more than a link to the web page, and calibre won't follow the link to pull down the actual content.
If someone doesn't want their content read by RSS readers (and there are plenty of caching RSS readers besides calibre), then they shouldn't put their content in an RSS feeds. Stop blaming the users for dumb publishers.