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Originally Posted by RickyMaveety
So, Taylor feels like he is being robbed of his copyright because of caching by search engines such as Google. I can see how he feels that way, despite what the law may or may not be.
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I do appreciate how Taylor feels. My reaction, however, is that "this is the way that the web works". Content DOES get cached, over and over, at every stage in the browsing process - on the end user's machine, by search engines, by cache servers that many ISPs (eg AOL) and companies use. If one publishes content on the web then of course I accept that one retains the copyright to that material (unless one explicitly places it in the public domain), but I think that one has to accept that caching constitutes "fair use" simply because that IS the way that the web operates, and it's not going to stop working that way because someone objects to it. There are mechanisms in place to allow a site owner to say "this content shouldn't be cached", and those can be used if one explicitly wishes to prevent a page being cached.
You have to accept the web the way that it actually is. Complaining about it is NOT going to change it.