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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...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57vRmR5a39s
'nuff said
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Non, non
That's funny...
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
"France Surrenders To Google?"
Sounds about right, but can't we change it to the headline below:
"France Surrenders To Everyone"
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but that wouldn't be news, everyone knows the only war they ever won was against themselves.
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Not won, Tied.....
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Because the good ol'USA wins many wars? Vietnam, Iraq, Afganistan... Please.
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Way to interject whiny statement into a tongue-in-cheek thread.
And by the way, the good ol'USA won all of those. Ever heard of a pyrrhic victory?
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Actually, its not even a pyrrhic victory, really. They are simply examples of conflicts in which it would have been strategically more advantageous for the US to not have gotten involved.
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beyonds me
Don't quite remember the original story (if I have even read it), but it's just dumbfound that someone is willing to spend millions to duplicate process/data just so that they have control over the data produced.
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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wether the USA won those or not, they sure had the balls not to just roll over and take it up the ass.
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trust the french to surrender at the first possible chance.
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Hmm...sorta sounds like France spending 5 years and billions of tax dollars before they quit.
And I thought Canada was the one with the partial French culture.
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Typical, knee-jerk, over-simplified, holier-than-thou, uneducated, American response.
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This may be a first; I don't think that France has surrendered to a private company before.
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they have, i think, i always get confused between nazi and sony
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The first chance was five years ago! However, it could have been their plan, all along, to squeeze money out of their citizens for no ACTUAL reason.
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Actually I have to applaud the AC in this case.
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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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.
What are you, in the US military or something?
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What are you, in the US military or something?
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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