[WikiEN-l] Google Books class action lawsuit

[Anthony]

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2009/9/5  <WJhonson at aol.com>:
> > In a message dated 9/5/2009 2:37:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > thomas.dalton at gmail.com writes:
> >
> >
> >> Either Google or the publisher/author of the book you viewed. People
> >> get sued for bypassing DRM, why couldn't they be sued for bypassing
> >> restrictions on Google books?>>
> >
> > Google suffers no damage from people in Namibia viewing a book through a
> > proxy.
>
> Ok, so it would be publisher or author, then.


And how are they going to find out about it?

Yes people get sued for bypassing DRM (*), but not many.

(*) Maybe.  Has anyone been successfully sued for merely *bypassing* DRM,
and not trafficking in DRM bypassing devices?  The very short list of DRM
cases I know of are all trafficking cases.