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> This will do to non-fiction books what youtube did to music: drive down the price in ways that makes distribution only economical for low-margin platforms. It could give G a monopoly on the market and create a disincentive for production of new knowledge.

This is just tiresome. Wasn't piracy supposed to doom us all?

It's regrettable to see Google gaining more power, but the copyright cartel doesn't have a solid moral standing from which to complain.

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My thought exactly. The alleged damage that piracy should bring about never actually happened, on the contrary, if we are to consider a number of studies.

Then you have you simplistic and ridiculous statements like

> When you free something that belongs to someone it’s called stealing.

As if anything that was ever invented, written, done or created by a human being was done so in complete isolation and not based on what others have done before.

> Wasn't piracy supposed to doom us all?

Piracy is what drove YouTube's monetization scheme, and there is a race to the bottom among musicians (which is certainly not only caused by piracy). So it may not be doom, but it's at least a PITA.

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