[Tfug] OT : Site Scaper

[Joshua Zeidner]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Joe Roberts <deepspace at dataswamp.net> wrote:
>> And, by extension, don't ever PUBLISH any software because that
>> *too* will be copied and stolen.  So, instead of entering a field
>> where your work *can* be stolen, we should all engage in professions
>> where the fruits of our labors can NOT be easily copied or stolen?
>
> Or just continue as normal.  What has amused me about the copyright
> debate in the past few years is that so many treat it like it is a new
> phenomenon.  But I remember dubbing records and tapes or off the
> radio, pirating games on Commodores and Ataris and Apples, and still
> the game industry and music industry went on.  As will other
> industries.

  and even earlier than that, after photography was invented there was
a controversy over whether you owed someone for photographing their
house.  And thus set the precedent for Google street view.  -jmz


>
>> I guess there will be lots of ditch-diggers in the future (ditches
>> are very hard to "steal" or copy -- without expending the same
>> effort that the original digger invested!) and very few "artists",
>> programmers, photographers, etc., eh?  :<
>
> I doubt anything will change.  As it hasn't since as long as I've been
> alive and people have been copying things.
>
>> I don't publish most of my IP as I don't want to have to spend money
>> defending it (if you don't defend your "rights", the law treats
>> them as "forfeit").  Instead, I share my IP with "select entities"
>> where it is to my best advantage.  If that means others who could
>> potentially benefit from *observing* it lose out... <shrug>
>
> Well I suppose that's one way to handle it.
>
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