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> but "the world is better off for having search engines" is not a valid excuse.

A valid excuse for not infringing copyright? What is the action that needs to be excused here? And if the sites don't want to be indexed by the search engines, why do they go out of their way to be indexed by search engines?

What exactly is the problem that needs solving?

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I meant and I said I agree with you, but "world will be better like this" is rarely valid defense.

> "world will be better like this" is rarely valid defense.

Fair enough, it is never a good defense, but in this case it is not meant as a defense as much as a reason against changing laws from what it currently is. There was no action to be defended until Australia changed their laws to something which makes search engines non feasible and to me that is a good reason why the law should not have been made.

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