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Originally Posted by eschwartz
I meant it somewhat tongue-in-cheek.
Making money isn't bad at all, it's HOW they make money that's a problem. It seems to me that Google is not making money through exploitation of copyright, so it's all good.
GOOGLE feels it is important to be the best, which is all that matters -- for them. It is their motivation to be what they are.
What takedown notices have they refused on the grounds it is too expensive?
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Those from members of the authors guild. I believe that was their main argument for continuing to post snippets from the vast number of books that were being protested. It would cost too much to address each issue individually as there were so many. I did read this as a statement from a Google spokesman IIRC and will try to remember exactly where. If I can't find it I will humbly beg your pardon.
And possibly the financial motivation factor is not that strong. After all what is a few hundred million to a company who paid out 125 million in 2008 on a very similar issue in 2008 and another 30 million to their lawyers and continued blithely on their way despite being aware that according to the court decision at that time it was not quite the right thing to do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors...ct_with_Google
Perhaps those that say all information should be free for the benefit of humanity are right, and in a perfect world it would be. But in this world all information being free could lead to most information being worth exactly what is paid for it. In other words nothing. I sometimes find that to be the case already
Helen