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DoJ Recommends NY Court Reject Google Book Deal
eldavojohn writes "The BBC and others are reporting on the US Department of Justice's recommendation to a New York court that they reject the Google book deal. The deal has received considerable attention, but for the most part it has been negative."
Summary: OMG searchable books! Think of the copyright holders!
So you think it's OK for Google to co-opt my rights as an author to control my work - for profit - without either my permission or compensation? What then is my motivation to produce for distribution future works?
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In all the media coverage of the health care issue, I've yet to hear of a single bonafide case of a person in the USA dying because he/she was refused medical treatment by a hospital due to inability to pay. It just doesn't work that way. All of the big fuckin' deal about health care is because people who don't have insurance would prefer not to go bankrupt in the event of a sudden catastrophic medical expense. There's nothing "dying" right now that universal health care would save, except for a few credit scores. Don't get me wrong, bankruptcy is no fun for anyone, but please stop pretending like people are dying in the streets because the federal government has not yet dominated the health care business. Really, it'd be much easier to take the proponents of government or government-funded health care seriously if they would quit being so melodramatic.
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
i shit out an obama.
plop!
kill all niggers
Quite frankly I could have been without the Harry Potter series, thankyouverymuch. They're a load of hogwarts, and I don't understand the fixation on this universe by anyone between 5 and 85.
Having said that, J.K. Rowling is also the Metallica of the publishing world. Got a bunch of money from her fans, then insults them.