Filed under: Web services, Google
District court rules Google Cache doesn't violate copyright
EFF's Fred von Lohmann
is reporting on a decision by a Nevada district court ruling that Google Cache, which makes available copies of web
pages that might no longer be available from their original provider, does not violate content owners' copyrights. Attorney and
writer Blake Field had sued Google for caching writings on his web site, but the court ruled that Google Cache did not
violate Field's copyright because its serving a cached copy was the result of "automated, non-volitional activity
by Google servers," it obeys robots.txt and meta tags, and is fair use.[Via Boing Boing]
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Tom Biro said 11:33AM on 1-26-2006
What I find most interesting is that I can pull up cached copies of password-protected articles at one particular news site just by hitting the "cancel" button two or three times when the username / password dialog box comes up. I'm sure that wasn't in the plan.
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