If you have 3 or more hours to kill you can watch the webcast of the Congressional Hearing last Thursday on the Google Author Settlement.
I tried to fast forward through it and everything I stopped on really pissed me off.
The blind guy talking about how Google was going to give him back his sight (by ripping me off blind!) . . . talk of kids in the barrio (really, is this guy going to break into song from West Side Story?) . . . more talk from Google (an African American guy answering an African American representative's question about how Google has addressed the original plaintiffs' complaints) about how they have devised a wonderful compromise with plaintiffs that will elevate society to utopia inducing hope filled beautiful days -- really, it was enough to make me wanna puke.
Maybe I'll just really bad at skipping through content, or maybe 90 percent of the hearing went like that, with a little downer from the head of the copyright office thrown in.
I don't know if I can stomach watching 3 hours of this Google propaganda, but I will say the real news that did come out of this hearing was the copyright office saying that the Settlement is fundamentally at odds with the law.
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_090910.html
I tried to fast forward through it and everything I stopped on really pissed me off.
The blind guy talking about how Google was going to give him back his sight (by ripping me off blind!) . . . talk of kids in the barrio (really, is this guy going to break into song from West Side Story?) . . . more talk from Google (an African American guy answering an African American representative's question about how Google has addressed the original plaintiffs' complaints) about how they have devised a wonderful compromise with plaintiffs that will elevate society to utopia inducing hope filled beautiful days -- really, it was enough to make me wanna puke.
Maybe I'll just really bad at skipping through content, or maybe 90 percent of the hearing went like that, with a little downer from the head of the copyright office thrown in.
I don't know if I can stomach watching 3 hours of this Google propaganda, but I will say the real news that did come out of this hearing was the copyright office saying that the Settlement is fundamentally at odds with the law.
http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_090910.html
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