France Surrenders To Google?
from the headlines-that-write-themselves dept
You may recall that, nearly five years ago, folks in France sounded the alarm: Google's book scanning plan was a threat to French culture that needed to be dealt with. So, the government threw a lot of money at an ill-defined plan... and plenty of folks were quick to take the money, but not do much of consequence with it. Eventually, late last year, one small part of the project was revealed, and it looked decent. But, apparently that wasn't enough. France's national library (Bibliotheque Nationale de France (BNF)) has thrown in the towel and apparently signed up with Google to allow it to scan its collection. Of course, they could have done that five years ago and saved billions of taxpayer dollars... but what fun would that be?
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reminds me of this skit from a game...
'nuff said
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Non, non
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090704/1607575444.shtml
I wonder if the copyright industry will rat on the BNF using some hacked up claim and have their Internet access suspended...
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haha
Sounds about right, but can't we change it to the headline below:
"France Surrenders To Everyone"
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And by the way, the good ol'USA won all of those. Ever heard of a pyrrhic victory?
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Way to twist a discussion about copyright law in France, into a "I hate the US" discussion!
Now that's dedication! Too bad it's wasted on falsehoods and incongruities.
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Now that's dedication! Too bad it's wasted on falsehoods and incongruities.
What are you, in the US military or something?
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Well, since he didn't own up to it, I'll go ahead and out him. Yes, DJ has previously said that he is in the US Navy in "intelligence". I wouldn't be surprised if they pay him to "monitor" certain web sites.
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And I thought Canada was the one with the partial French culture.
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beyonds me
Not to mention that they really have no control, if the works are public domain or government archives.
Why do people have such an urge to control whatever they see, even if it doesn't make sense?
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