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Online Content Cannot Remain Free
Tags: Those crazy European Publishers are at it again. Seems they’ve come to the realization that search engines are turning a profit (Google seems to be the target in this article) by scraping and indexing their content!
Pity that the publishers haven’t realized that their content is useless to me if I can’t find it, nor not understanding that their exists mechanisms to block said search engines (robots.txt). Today, please shed a tear for these guys, as their outdated system is broken by The Internets.
Come to think, publishers have the same problem that the record companies have. They could produce far more content than the brick and mortar can deal with. See, the RIAA isn’t about music, its about getting little bits of plastic moved through the checkouts. Likewise, book publishers aren’t about literature, its about moving dead trees through the checkouts. There are now millions of people who have better facilities to make music than the Beatles had; consequently, there is potential millions more records to be produced. The RIAA’s (and stores for that matter) business model can’t cope with that and neither can the book publishers.
It just goes to show one basic truth of the Internet, if you create something useful and popular, eventually someone is going to sue you for it.
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