The warning is a temporal message, given to those that run the script. Because of this its not a legal notice of a possible copyright infringement, its a tool. The distinction is very important as the first must result in a solution while the second may trigger an action.
Also, if you check the history of some of those bots you will find that they creates a lot of troubles because they post statements about copyright infringements, while either the material should be deleted on sight or the contributor should be contacted. By using an interactive tool it is the admin using it that takes action, not the tool itself.
And a last thing, if you try to run such a bot you will very quicly find that there are a lot of nearly identical texts, its like finding to eggs on the wall mart and yelling "hey its a copyvio"!
John
Andrew Whitworth skrev:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Christophe Henner christophe.henner@gmail.com wrote:
2008/8/27 John Erling Blad john.erling.blad@jeb.no: Haven't you think that the bots could make a list of possible copyright infringments, and users could check this list.
My point is, it could be run 24/7 it would just need a server to run it, and it would be up to date.
Similar to the way I've seen COIBot run on meta. Compile a list and write it to some place like a user space. People could check the userspace pages for entries and follow up on them.
--Andrew Whitworth
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