gmiller - 4:28 pm on Feb 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

What many here seem to be missing is that copyright law regulates the right to make copies, hence the name. The toolbar isn't making extra copies of your pages, so copyright is irrelevant. This area of the law has already been beaten to death. Print publishers tried for many decades to get used book sales banned. A number of companies sued over things like the Gator/Claria adware when the web started to boom. The courts, so far, have treated the Internet just like other media, so you're not likely to have any luck on that count.

If you want to sue, you'll have to find some means under existing law or get Congress and the President to create a law that benefits nobody but webmasters. I'm thinking we don't have enough votes to get the law changed. My advice? Fight a PR war. Smearing Google's reputation is the only weapon available.