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Comment What does a site want in Google's index? (Score 1) 611

They can embed the whole site in a DRM-ed Flash or Silverlight wrapper

Which means your favorite general-purpose web search engine can't see it to index it. Of course, a site could provide just the title, author, and abstract without digital restrictions management and get those in the index, similarly to how Elsevier journals and WSJ.com present articles to anonymous visitors and to logged-in users whose subscription has lapsed.

Comment Accessibility (Score 1) 611

If text browsers have a problem finding the start of an article's body on a particular site, some screen readers used by blind people might have the same problem. Report this accessibility problem to the site. If the site still refuses to fix it, find a blind person in your community and a sufficiently sleazy lawyer and have them sue the site under applicable disability discrimination law. It worked against Target.com.

Comment Re:missing the point (Score 2) 611

No actual content of value would be lost (although some might only continue to exist in the Wayback Machine)

Until the subscription sites put up a robots.txt file to instruct the Wayback Machine to refuse to deliver already-archived content. For other archives that don't honor robots.txt retrospectively, a subscription site could send a notice of claimed infringement under OCILLA.

Comment Re:$230 (Score 1) 611

Most of the time, the bottleneck is not my side of the Internet connection but instead other side of the connection and the comparatively low-end CPU of my tablet and laptop as it decompresses images, executes scripts, and lays out the boxes that make up the page. If I had 19 kids and counting, and I had someone who actually watched 19 Kids and Counting, then perhaps I might need faster Internet and more TV.

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