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Comment: Re:So this comes as a suprise? (Score 3, Informative) 112

by Svippy (#39010143) Attached to: Looking For Love; Finding Privacy Violations

Don't think I'm right? Check this out: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php

Amusing that you uses Archive.org as an example, because the Wayback Machine fully respects robots.txt, even retroactively. If you eventually decide that your site should not be indexed by Archive.org, you can tell your robots.txt file to indicate that. Moreover, whenever the Archive.org bot comes by your site again and discovers it, it will not only not index your current site but also delete everything else it had on your site.

Now, of course, that is not to suggest that if you delete it from Archive.org and your own website, that the images and text is gone for good, another site may have re-hosted it. But I know none other than Archive.org that does it for a living and moreover, the very data in question will certainly be harder to find.

Comment: Re:marketing.. (Score 2) 245

by Svippy (#38827027) Attached to: Zynga Accused of Cloning Hit Indie iPhone Game <em>Tiny Tower</em>

Nimblebit just got a tonne of marketing over this - who cares about the ripoff? marketing 101 => success!

Yes, but Zynga just gave it to them. People listen because it is a good story (David vs Goliath). Since the games are practically the same, users have a choice. And most are likely to go with the one by the people who (understandably) feel cheated. In essence, Zynga brought this upon themselves. All they could have hoped for would have been Nimblebit A) saying nothing or B) being complete dicks about it.

I am not saying Zynga is going to be losing any sleep over this, but they did hand over free marketing to Nimblebit. You may then wonder whether Zynga and Nimblebit are secretly working together to steer up more noise about the already popular game.

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