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Yeah, but if you staple a note to a telephone pole you shouldn't get angry if people copy its contents. To portray a simple web crawler "trespasser" is a poor analogy. Do you have any proof that the owner of www.zombo.com has given anyone permission to view its contents? If not, should people be persecuted if they visit the site?

Elsewhere in this thread, people have pointed out that Google has crawled (and cached) at least some of the pages that were supposedly criminally accessed.



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