I can't speak for the masses but this is a net lose for Google in my eyes because it paints them as being extremely hypocritical IMO. Keep in mind that we're t

I can't speak for the masses but this is a net lose for Google in my eyes because it paints them as being extremely hypocritical IMO. Keep in mind that we're talking about Google here. The Google of Google News, the web-corpus assisted translation engine, the Google book scanning project, wifi scanning, etc. Not that I'm negative on any of those projects, but based on the amazing degree to which their business piggybacks off the work of others it does make it difficult for me to take them seriously when they come out swinging at somebody else for piggybacking off of them, especially when the piggybacking going on here appears to be fairly minor and incidental.