European newspaper publishers: Let’s use ACAP protocol to limit search engines and aggregators
“What sets this declaration apart from the other Hamburg declarations out there, or from the various Geneva declarations or Berlin declarations, is that this one is intended to give the publishers’ favorite solution to the news-stealing problem, the Automated Content Access Protocol, the force of law.” – Ars Technica.
July 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
That’s a wonderful idea. Of course, most search engines would probably use a simplifed subset:
if(ACAP=true) nolink else robots.link
I wonder how Belgians will feel when their entire country disappears from the www?
Regards,
Jack Tingle