anony101
@comcast.net | Altering other people's intellectual property
No one has mentioned the reaction of web masters (companies) whose web pages are going to be modified in order to display those ads. How would for example google react to their web pages being modified? |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | I assumed NeduAD would be teaming up with ad networks?
I mean, if they're just throwing out other peoples ads for their own (or putting ads where they weren't previously), wouldn't that be a fairly obvious fatal flaw? |
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voipdabbler
join:2006-04-27
Kalispell, MT
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That's Nebu's Achilles Heel
The point you've raised is Nebu's Achilles Heel and I suspect that deep pockets, the likes of Google, etc., will sue if this system is widely adopted. (It will be interesting to see if Nebu and ISP supporters try to interject language in to Markey's bill that would somehow address copyright issues raised by how Nebu functions.). Let's face it, in the early 90's when the Internet's GUI interface made the system friendlier to average users intimidated by entering commands at a prompt (yes, I'm old enough to have had access to the Internet when there was no GUI WWW but simply Archie, Gopher, and good old Pine Mail) the courts began holding that linking within frames was a copyright violation. Most of those early cases were brought by publishers concerned about the loss of ad revenue when portions of their web pages were brought in to another site's frame and the advertising from the original site wasn't visible. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | I remeber using Pine and Gopher on a VAX in college... back then, before IM and blogs, there was ISCA BBS as well.
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Canada = Hollywood North |
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