Re: Try Reading ALL The Words People
If you are in the business of selling digital goodies then you keep them behind a paywall until you get the money for them. If you are selling digital goodies on behalf of other people then, yes, it is your duty, responsibility and job to take precautions to keep them secure. Letting Google index the high-res images is the opposite of that.
Google aren't entirely blameless - I already said that...they would have been as well served just sticking with the thumbnails.
But if I was making a site to sell digital goodies and I allowed Google -or anyone else- to just waltz out the front door with them, I would be sacked; and deservedly so. So how are Getty not liable for their actions?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
