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Old 03-28-2011, 10:20 AM   #89
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Originally Posted by murraypaul View Post
Simply that just because Google are willing to spend a huge amount of money on this, doesn't mean they should be allowed to get away with removing others' rights.
It is often a useful tool to say: "If it were company X rather than company Y doing this, how would I feel about it?"
In this case: If Microsoft (or Apple) were trying to create a monopoly on the rights to out-of-print works, would that sound like a good thing?
(As a general question to the world, I think you think this is a bad thing anyway)
Yep, you're confused. My answer was in response to one reason why google should be allowed to do this.

You're way off into the stratosphere....
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