On Tuesday, Mathias Schindler reported how easy it was to access the site of German Google Book Search competitor in progress, VTO (full text search online). A PowerPoint presentation linked from the VTO"s homepage contained the password to the Beta site, and the site itself only protected its book pages with some JavaScript that disables the right mouse button (a non-protection, actually, which the browser allows to circumvent through a variety of simple means). Mathias was able to download a complete copy of a current German bestselling book, which was quite delicate considering the company behind VTO supported a lawsuit against Google Book Search because Google allegedly didn"t protect ...
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