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Originally Posted by Shaggy
You "opt-in" when you make your content publicly available.
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No, I don't.
Authoring a website doesn't create a business partnership with Google, allowing them to host my content on their servers, serve up copies from their cache, and use it for the advertising system.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
If you want to control who sees it, then put controls on your website.
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Copyright exists the moment I author the work. No other action on my part is necessary. "Finders, Keepers" may work on the playground, but it's not yet been written into law.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
This argument has been beaten to death ever since search engines were created (long before Google existed). At this point, it's just a silly waste of time.
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We have a fine tradition of time-wasting silliness here, but this topic doesn't quite fit the mold. No animals, for one thing.