> And what about those conjured celebrities I added as a precaution? All five were all scraped right into Google’s search result pages. It provided undeniable proof that after being turned down, Google simply went ahead and stole the entire database of content CNW took eight years and over a million dollars to build.
A number might not be copyrightable, but what about a news article? What would happen if all the world’s new sites just denied the Google crawler using robots.txt? What if they also returned 404s if accessed from an IP address known to be owned by Google?
A number might not be copyrightable, but what about a news article? What would happen if all the world’s new sites just denied the Google crawler using robots.txt? What if they also returned 404s if accessed from an IP address known to be owned by Google?