alt Hacker News> Google providing what would have been one of the greatest storehouses of readily available knowledge in the world
I'd be worried about how much they'd be charging for access once they had the monopoly on so many rare books.
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anon84873628 • today at 5:14 PM
Then at least there would be outrage to drive the passing of the needed legislation which otherwise hasn't come to pass anyway.
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This is exactly the kind of pointless concern I'm talking about. How many legal digitial providers of those rare books are there now? Zero, I believe.
It's the logic of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face, which prefers that no one benefit rather than Google see any benefit.