Here's a bit of information confusion. Google.com is a search engine. It helps users find content/information on the Internet. Content owners are slowly loosing identification because people are instructing "Google this" and "Google that" (myself included).
The removal of ownership is usually stated like "I don't know where I got it, but I found it on Google."
We can all remember Google, but we can't remember ics.gov.us.com/sosus/secret/conspiracy/23957393kdijerklfglkjf=?.html.
So what's it mean to be a true information owner? If anyone can use a search engine to find your content, doesn't that mean you've partnered with a distributor? It's not like everything on the Internet has a market (someone that wants it), so a distributor is a good thing to have. And do you pay the distributor? How does the distributor make money?
Oh, yeah. The form of ad revenue, which is triggered by your content. So if the distributor is making money, why aren't you? If you don't make money off your content, that means it must be free. If there's no monetary value for your content, why would it matter if someone copied/used/lifted it? It's not like you use it for livelihood.
That was my little rabbit trail from someone's comment about finding information on Google.
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