Google Subpoenas Microsoft & Yahoo

eldavojohn writes "Mercury News is running a story reporting that Google has filed subpoenas with Microsoft and Yahoo, in relation to their legal battles with publishers and authors. Google faces charges of massive copyright infringement surrounding its online book project. The company claims that Microsoft and Yahoo have taken the exact same steps in acquiring print-related rights. Google therefore wants to show that 'everyone is doing it.'" From the article: "McGraw-Hill Cos. and the Authors Guild, along with other publishers and authors, contend that a Google project to digitize the libraries of four major U.S. universities, as well as portions of the New York Public Library and Oxford University's libraries, ignores the rights of copyright holders in favor of Google's economic self-interest ... Is the library of the future going to be open? Or will it be controlled by a couple of big corporate players?"

man what a pain

[Anonymous Coward]

This first posting crap is barely worth it anymore.

Re:Que: Your parents.

[filtur]

Well I guess that makes it OK. If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?
Only if google told me to :)

Re:Que: Your parents.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well I guess that makes it OK. If everyone jumped off a cliff, would you?

As long as it was a lot of fun and I was caught by a bevy of beautiful beach volleybayll players, why not?

slogan change

[joerdie]

mabey google should change their slogan from "do no evil" to "do less evil and tattle on everyone else when we get in trouble."

10,000 lemmings can't be wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

That reminds me of a usenet signature as above.

When big money are doing illegal things, there would be changes in the law, right?