You know, where would we be without search engines? I think the best thing that could come out of this court case would be that Google could have some sort of register that people could fill out in order to keep Google from reproducing their pages or images on their search, but to say that Google shouldn't be able to have this function at all could really hurt a lot of people. When you do an image search you are not simply given that image, you are also given a link to the page that image sits on, which can drive traffic to your site. It may not be that beneficial to us as an industry but it is another way for people's sites to be seen. Nobody is perfect and I'm not saying we should let Google walk all over us, especially if they are taking our content and putting it up for anyone to grab, but couldn't there be a better resolution where we could all be happy rather than having to sue?




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