{"id":4524,"date":"2011-09-20T11:52:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T16:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techcitement.com\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2011-10-03T09:33:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T14:33:23","slug":"google-causes-loss-of-books-turns-society-into-man-eating-whales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techcitement.com\/software\/google-causes-loss-of-books-turns-society-into-man-eating-whales\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Causes Loss Of Books, Turns Society Into Man-eating Whales"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oh Google, come on. I have to say, I\u2019m a bit disappointed in your behavior. I know it\u2019s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission, but I have a hard time picturing a group of Google executives sitting in a meeting and saying, \u201cWe\u2019ll just do it, and see if they notice\u201d, which is what it looks like they did regarding their plan to make a digital library. When Google created Google Books<\/a>, they were quickly slapped with a lawsuit that\u2019s been in negotiations since its creations in 2005. Big fat DUH, Google. With all the trouble my teachers went through to make sure I didn\u2019t plagiarize or copy information out of books or websites for my papers, it\u2019s strange that Google thinks it would be okay to just upload millions and millions of books without telling the authors. It’s hard to imagine this free digital library not having some sort of monetary effect on the writers and publishing companies, not to mention they have even less knowledge of who gets their material and how. Plus, there’s the general lack of R-E-S-P-E-C-T in this situation.<\/p>\n