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Your Rights Online: Google Loses Cache-Copyright Lawsuit in Belgium
Posted by Zonk on Tuesday February 13, @09:51AM
from the no-convenience-for-you dept.
Google
acroyear writes "A court in Belgium has found that Google's website caching policies are a violation of that nation's copyright laws [CC] [MD] [GC]. The finding is that Google's cache offers effectively free access to articles that, while free initially, are archived and charged for via subscriptions. Google claims that they only store short extracts, but the court determined that's still a violation. From the court's ruling: 'It would be up to copyright owners to get in touch with Google by e-mail to complain if the site was posting content that belonged to them. Google would then have 24 hours to withdraw the content or face a daily fine of 1,000 euros ($1,295 U.S.).'"

Yeah, that's me, front page, top headline, /.!

My second non-"ask slashdot" entry ever, my last being in 2003.

This ain't November 11th, 1987.

The feds are a bunch of wussies.

Intellicast.com:

November 11, 1987 -

a Veteran's Day snowstorm dumped record early snows over the mid-Atlantic with 17 inches at Washington, D.C. This amount of snow is rare in winter let alone the middle of fall. Thunder and lightning accompanied the snow for several hours

The thing was, it was supposed to have stopped snowing by 8am.  Every weatherman (and I mean EVERY) said it would stop. Every school system did an late opening to keep an eye on it.

Except Fairfax.

The snow didn't stop.  It got worse.

Every school system called the day off.

Except Fairfax.

Which had to scrounge to get the busses through the 11 inches that had piled up in less than 3 hours to get the kids out 2 hours (or more) early.

People leaving the Pentagon at noon weren't getting to Kings Park West until 9pm.  I know - I was out there pushing their cars past my house.

So to close early on THIS crap?

sheesh...

quote of the day

On "Science": I know of no other force that can wean us from our infantile belief that we are the center of the universe.

-- Ann Druyan, co-author, Cosmos, and Carl Sagan's widow.

Cohen again doesn't get it

Richard Cohen - The Explanation Hillary Clinton Owes - washingtonpost.com:

Can it also be a coincidence that they, in fact, voted as a majority of the American people at the time wanted?

No it can't. It can be explained in one very simple term: representation.  If anything, when the elected officials DON'T act as their constituents want, yet provide no reasonable justification as to why the majority consensus from their district or state is wrong, is when there is a problem that should be addressed in the next election.

In other words, the Republican and Democratic bums who voted for the Terry Schiavo transfer to federal courts.  There the Republicans went (with many Democrats in tow), acting like a husband's personal struggle was worth more dedicated attention in the most powerful legislative body in America than the thousands of soldiers in Iraq or the millions of dollars fraudulently stolen in the course of "reconstruction".

That the Democratic senators now act like they were fooled by BushCo is not something to be ashamed of (even as much as the right wing media machine will pull the "flip-flopper" slot machine as often as they can).  BushCo went to great lengths, even to the point of destroying Colin Powell's professional reputation, to fool the entire world.