Thursday, April 28, 2011
No Thank You Google
I just logged into Blogger and Google asked me to enter my phone number. I declined. Google has been stealing peoples information via wireless. Google is in a legal fight with authors and publishing companies over Google's digitizing 'orphan' books and making money off it. So I see no real reason to give Google anymore information than I absolutely need to. For a company that purports to do no evil, some of their actions are awfully smelly.
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Weird. Why would they want that? I have had to give a (cell) number when setting up a blog or two, but nothing more, yet.
The glorious goal of providing low-cost books to the masses plays well for the welfare crowd, but a book that is "out-of-print" is NOT the same as "out-of-copyright" or "public domain". The contract holder of a published book retains a lot of rights, among them the option to republish elsewhere, to sell royalties for electronic reproduction, for audio/video recreation, even for comic book serialization. Unless Google gets my signature authorizing, I would probably seek to become a very wealthy man if they should adopt any orphaned works of mine. It would probably be a race to the courtroom between me and St. Martin's Press...
I know Rose. Logged in to put some comments up and I get it asking for a number. I just left it blank, clicked, and pressed on.
Exactly Ed, Google is being fought tooth&nail over their ditigizing scheme by publishers and authors. Right now a settlement that was favorable towards Google just got tossed out. So the fight continues.
Don't Google- Bing, Aim, Yahoo, Answers, Ask or use the million other search engines are out there. Stop making it a verb. Go to one that is not in bed with the libtard administration, one that puts up American Flags on Memorial Day, 4th of July, Veterans Day. They don't- but they sure acknowledge many other days with their symbols.
I know Legios. And have weaned myself away from that verb. Though Bing-Fu does not have the same magic. :)
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