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Old 02-10-2017, 11:54 AM   #19
fjtorres
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Ah... so the lawsuit essentially stopped Google from creating a giant ebook store filled to the brim with works whose copyright holders weren't actively protecting their rights any more? I stand corrected. We certainly dodged a bullet there.
If you go back to the 2009 threads here and in Teleread you'll find google had a lot of supporters because they were promising to bring out ebooks of tons of out-of-print titles.

It was 2009.
A wholly different era.
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