TheMadScientist - 10:00 pm on Jan 8, 2013 (gmt 0)

If they start infringing copyright on a grand scale, lots of people.

This is exactly what I was talking about with having to 'throw out' what I think is 'cool', 'right' or even 'ethical' sometimes and just look at reality ... I wish you were right, but the following links represent what appears to be copyright infringement and reality WRT Google:

[googlebooksettlement.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]

No one and nothing has stopped them.
It's still there and available...
[books.google.com...]

They put it up 4 or so years ago. It's been highly contested as anti-trust and copyright infringement since 2009. It's still not completely settled, but it's still not gone either.