A bad and cheerish article, imho - seen and expected better in the guardian. > and make "snippets" of it available online. Google does not scan "sniplets" the

A bad and cheerish article, imho - seen and expected better in the guardian. > and make "snippets" of it available online. Google does not scan "sniplets" they scan the complete book, they also do not pirate-publish sniplets, but the complete books, one sniplet at a time. Its easy to reset cookie, and do a new search to download the complete book. But while Jo average is jailed for it, or driven into suicide for doing same, Google is a multi billion company, one of the few things US is proud about. So they have the right of the power on their side. > What the Google settlement means for now is that the two great repositories of human culture, the book and the web, are a little less separate, and a little more alike. Scanning books for public good would be fine, if was done by library of congress, but its evil if its done by the big brother that is called Google.