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Getting Around Google Print

A recent article "Google's Cookie and Hacking Google Print" describes techniques used to write a script that can create PDFs of entire copyrighted books from Google Print. [More comments on it at Kuro5hin.] The full code is not available and the author let Google know about the issue, but the point is that despite some clever programming on Google's part, there can be numerous ways of getting around the copyright restrictions once a book is in a publicly-accessible electronic format. Not a problem for the out of copyright books, but for those still under copyright . . .

Dated Mar 7, 2005 in Google


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