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09/01/2008 12:40:50 AM · #1 |
Hi, recently I come to know about this protocol: ACAP, a protocol to implement access control on your content.
Here is some bits from their documentation:
âThe Automated Content Access Protocol (âACAPâ) is being developed by publishers and technology partners, including search engines, led by the European Publishers Council and the World Association of Newspapers, to communicate publishersâ usage permissions and policies electronically. The initial focus is on aggregation of content by search engine âspidersâ (the systems that create the search engine indexes also known as ârobotsâ and âcrawlersâ).â
âIt is a protocol, based on existing technologies, to communicate permissions and licenses in a machine-readable way. In future it will be extended to cover other types of users (including potentially end-users) and content (including video and audio). ACAP is not DRM. It does not technically prevent access and use. However it is capable of operating alongside DRM solutions. But (particularly in a business-to-business relationship) it should not be necessary to resort to technical enforcement â or the courts.â
You can find more at //www.the-acap.org.
It is said to change the way content is shared, indexed and accessed in the internet. Though at this stage (it is in beta stage) there seems to be some problems. You can find about them here:
//www.itwire.com/content/view/17206/53/1/0/
//arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/skeptical-look-at-acap.ars
Any thoughts on this?
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09/01/2008 09:57:39 AM · #2 |
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09/01/2008 11:17:19 AM · #3 |
Well it's hardly in googles interest (or any other search engine) to have something like that widely operational. Their livelihood is from stealing, sorry, indexing other peoples content. Similar to the deal where they have text contents of a large portion of the books "for indexing purposes" (I believe they share the full text with some uni's in order to get access to books they own).
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