17 Quotes by David Drummond


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    We think you should be able to search through every word of every book ever written, and come away with a list of relevant books to buy or find at your local library,

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    The parties have entered into a private agreement that resolves all issues to their mutual satisfaction.

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    It's a pretty big network. Without volunteer citizen science, there's be no way we could have a project of this scope and reach within the region.

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    Creating an easy-to-use index of books is fair use under copyright law and supports the purpose of copyright: to increase the awareness and sales of books, directly benefiting copyright holders. This short-sighted attempt to block Google Print works counter to the interests of not just the world's readers, but also the world's authors and publishers.

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    I guess to us that suggests not much faith in the copyright law, ... It seems to us, the moment anyone starts to do things that have an actual harm, copyright law is very well designed to deal with that. It is hard to understand exactly what is the harm.

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    You're not going to make any progress on a problem if you're not honest about what a problem is.

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    Most hacking incidents that you see are freelancers - maybe government sponsored, maybe not. They are out there trying to steal intellectual property, make some money. Or they might just be hackers who want to damage something for whatever reason. That's a fact of life that internet companies deal with all the time.

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