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I'll assume by "the good fight" you meant "[making] international copyright law more permissive." Surely you see how that was in your employer's best interests

• annnnd 11y ago
  And of course there was Google Video (before they bought Youtube).
• DannyBee 11y ago
  You never believe me when i tell you this, but google honestly did not give a crap about its business interests when it started that fight, it cared about the world being a better place. You are talking about ~2006. Folks then were much more concerned with "making the world better" (TM) than making money. The folks involved weren't thinking "Hey, 10 years from now, we might own a video company and this might be a net bad for us" or "hey, this might later some day affect ads profits for search". They were thinking "Hey, this would make the world pretty shitty for people, we should try to do something because we have a larger voice than a lot of folks" (Note that at this time in 2006, google had 3 people in the DC office, including me. I pretty much know all the motivations of my office mates, who were responsible for starting this)