Paywalls crumble with Google Buzz

http://www.google.com/buzz/abinandanan/d4zdttKNZSN/I-want-to-see-how-this-appears-in-Buzz-Materials

by shrikant • 16 years ago

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timdorr• 16 years ago

Except it violates copyright law when it's an original work that the site is hiding behind a paywall which has been copied into the public on Buzz. So, they could get forceful about it if it starts becoming a common problem.

Interestingly enough, Google has a relatively manual process for DMCA complaints with Buzz: http://www.google.com/buzz_dmca.html No forms or automated replies, which is their norm in other areas of the company.

jrockway• 16 years ago

Yeah, because digital content is really easy to restrict. The recording industry succeeded, the movie industry succeeded, and the software industry succeeded, so it's likely that scientific journals will have no trouble keeping people from copying their content.

Yeah right...

It's almost like people don't care about your copy "right", even though "the law" tells them otherwise. Oh noes!

patio11• 16 years ago

Don't look now, but I think video game manufacturers are winning. The PC is dying as a platform for most mass-market games which are not MMORPGs. Subscription services are essentially immune to piracy. So are "free to play" games, FarmVille, etc etc.

The consoles are seeing a resurgence. Piracy on the PS3 is, what, negligible? Put the same game on a PC and empirically 80%+ of users steal it. Unsurprisingly games are not moving in that direction that much anymore.

brianlash• 16 years ago

It's interesting that this is just like their protocol they set for trademark complaints against AdWords advertisers.

RK• 16 years ago

I imagine this will not last long.

nir• 16 years ago

Isn't "copy & paste" the major paywall crumbling technology here?

tensafefrogs• 16 years ago

Exactly, how is this different from copying the article to a blog or something?

judofyr• 16 years ago

I really don't see the problem. He marked an RSS-item public, and now complains the public can see it? The link is kinda the real content for a RSS-item. It's not Buzz' fault he shares paywalls-links...

jsz0• 16 years ago

To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).

ujjwalg• 16 years ago

The interesting thing here is that the abstract which is the text he has is free for all. It is just the abstract of a nature journal article, nothing more, nothing less, which is available to everyone, anyways.

callmeed• 16 years ago

Couldn't this really help per-article/micropayment content get around? Especially if billing was tied to your Google account in some manner?

eli• 16 years ago

I could just as well do this with Gist, no?

jamesbritt• 16 years ago

Or HN:

http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/nmat262...

Paywalls crumble with Google Buzz

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