Comments on: Google pauses library project

Search powerhouse will temporarily stop scanning copyright-protected books while it works out an agreement with publishers.

[wwhit710]

Stop playing these silly kid's games

Stop with the "Google representatives have instituted a policy of not talking with CNET News.com reporters until July 2006 in response to privacy issues raised by a previous story." thing aleady. You make yourself sound like little kids. I am not saying Google is right, but how are businesses supposed to take you seriously when you play these games.

On the Contrary

I appreciate CNET shining a bright light on Google's absurd behavior.

Keep rubbing it in.

opt out!

The 'opt in' works great in a society where people publish more than they read.

The public domain is poluted. There is no way to know what is fair game unless you buy it and there is no possible way a person could become literate if they had to buy everything they read.

Has the public domain been reduced to freely viewable advertisements?

Thank good for newspapers. Being able to preview ~40 articles and read ~5 selected articles for 50 cents or a buck is as much as a literate person should have to pay when they are paying.

Literature is to be read, not bought and sold like the deeds of mansions.

[lowter]

Too Funny

I think that Google has hit every avenue possible in the copyright realm. They need to check with everyone before continuing this things, they wonder why they always have these issues?

I also love how "Google declined to comment." It is hilarious how immature their acting about that ordeal.

Why?

Why was what Google did funny or wrong? They posted confidential information about the guy in public. Yes, this was found through Google. But just because Google has the ability to find such information, doesn't mean it's right to do so. An illustration: Just because a gun can be used to kill someone, doesn't mean it's right to.