Re: [Bug-gne]Copyright infringements

[Imran Ghory]

On 8 Mar 2001, at 14:10, Bob Dodd wrote:

> As the guy says, we have a choice between engineered anarchy, and
> control freakery :-(  Imran's solution from a week or so ago would
> take us down the "anarchy" route, but even that leaves us open to
> Napster-style legal attack. 

I doubt it, we would be little more then a search engine, not even 
the RIAA are going to try and sue Google for linking to pirate mp3s.

> Assuming that
> was possible, would we still have what GNE was originally intended to
> be, or would we simply have unleashed a loose conspiracy of
> "informationistas" upon a spider-linked, formatted subset of the web?

It could be collected in the same way Linux distros are. After all a 
standard 6 cd Linux distro has programs from probably 100+ sites. 
A distro of the encyclopedia would have have articles combined 
from 1000+ sites, it's just a question of scale.

Imran