Google forced to go web 0.0 by courts (nytimes.com)

Sounds worth it if it allows Google to auto-opt-in all authors into having their books digitized.

That is really cool. I'm glad that Google is willing to go through all this hassle (court case, notice ads, etc) to digitize books. I'm sure somebody thinks they'll make money on it too, but even if it's a giant cash cow, it's also a giant win for culture.