Copyright and the Web

I believe U.S. District Court Judge A. Howard Matz does not know much about technology when he decided that Google had violated the copyright of images from a porn magazine when they appeared in the image search engine. If you want to restrict your content, you can do it. Perfect 10, the site with artificial model-type nudes, can even decide to exclude its site from search engines altogether. This, however, is also not in their interest because visitors will no longer be lured to their site.

Aside from excluding your site, or parts of it, you can also use many security features, such as setting up a secure portal. I furthermore believe that this verdict is problematic for the whole internet as a platform for free exchange of information. Without the ability to search website even for pictures, the internet loses its ability to exchange information.