CHAPTER 7: The New Evil Empire? (2004-2005)

122 a faux documentary by two young journalists: EPIC 2014 available on YouTube.

122 ”evil empire“: author interview with Sheryl Sandberg, October 10, 2007.

122 ”Did not begin until Google went public“: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 16, 2008.

122 It took Microsoft fifteen years: time line on Microsoft.com.

123 ”There’s that same ’think big’ attitude“: Steven Lurie, quoted in Gary Rivlin, ”Relax, Bill Gates; It’s Google’s Turn as the Villain,“ New York Times, August 24, 2005.

123 their ”moon shot“: Jeffrey Toobin, ”Google’s Moon Shot,“ The New Yorker, April 18, 2007.

123 ”Google decides not to use that content“: Copies of Google library contracts with the University of Michigan and the University of California, 2006.

124 ”copyduty“: Kevin Kelly ”Scan This Book!“ New York Times Magazine, May 14, 2006.

124 ”People don’t buy books“: author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

125”Google went to libraries“: author interview with Richard Sarnoff, January 16, 2008.

125 He mentioned ”the huge risk“: author interview with Paul Aiken, February 14, 2008.

126 ”Fair use is as important a right as copyright infringement“: author interviews with David Drummond, September 11, 2007, and March 25, 2008.

126 ”finding a way to move forward“: author interview with John Hennessy June 9, 2008.

127 ”If they had a copyright lawyer“: author interview with Tim Wu, September 20, 2007.

127 ”Our patents, trademarks, trade secrets“: Google IPO prospectus, 2004.

127 ”I think that’s true“: author interview with Megan Smith, April 17, 2008.

128 ”We’re a technology company“: author interview with David Eun, September 18, 2007.

128 ”It’s probably both“: author interview with Paul Aitken, February 14, 2008.

128 ”The first thing he said was“: author interview with Mel Karmazin, May 13, 2008.

128 That year, Yahoo generated profits of $1.1 billion: Richard Siklos, ”When Terry Met Jerry Yahoo“ New York Times, January 29. 2006.

129 Google acquired fifteen smaller digital companies: financial results for 2005 available on Google.com.

129 The circulation of daily newspapers ... fall more steeply: Newspaper Association of America Web site.

129 falling 20 percent on average: Dick Edmonds, ”A Bad Year for Newspaper Stocks—a Worse Year for the Gray Lady“ Poynter Online, January 12, 2006.

130 U.S. content and software companies lost: Alan Cane, ”Attacking the Pirates,“ Financial Times, February 28, 2007.

130 About one billion songs per month: Ethan Smith, ”Sales of Music, Long in Decline, Plunge Sharply,“ Wall Street Journal, March 21, 2007.

130 ”I don’t believe they have any incentive“: author interview with Sir Howard Stringer, February 8, 2008.

130 three years earlier, in 2002: National Cable and Telecommunications Association.

130 The radio industry was also squeezed: ”Digitalization of the Media Industry: How Close to a Tipping Point?,“ The Kreisky Media Consultancy May 6, 2006.

131 concern about ”market power“: author interview with Irwin Gotlieb, June 2, 2008.

131 ”In Google’s 2004 annual report“: Annual 2004 report to shareholders from Larry Page and Sergey Brin, spring of 2005.

131 the founders gave old-media executives more cause for concern: annual letter to shareholders from Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2004.

132 ”We told the pilots to head to London“: author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

132 ”he offered a number“: author interview with Jonathan Miller, February 12, 2008.

133 Microsoft spurned the advice: Robert A. Guth, ”Microsoft Bid to Beat Google Builds on a History of Misses,“ Wall Street Journal, January 16, 2009.

133 ”thinking they had the deal done“: author interview with Tim Armstrong, February 28, 2008

133 Google and AOL reached agreement: Google and Time Warner AOL press release, December 20, 2005.

134 ”so fearful of Google“: Mylene Mangalindan and Robert A. Guth, ”EBay Talks to Microsoft, Yahoo About a Common Foe: Google,“ Wall Street Journal, April 21, 2006.

134 ”more like us than anyone“: Fred Vogelstein interview with Bill Gates, Fortune, April 18, 2005.

134 If a user searched Tianamen Square: Peter Bazalgette, Guardian, August 17, 2008.

134 Four years later, at Google’s annual shareholder meeting: meeting on Google campus, May 8, 2008.

135 comply with the government of Thailand: Seth Mydans, ”Agreeing to Block Some Videos, YouTube Returns to Thailand,“ New York Times, September 1, 2007.

135 ”There is no question“: Elliot Schrage testimony before the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives, February 15, 2006.

135 ”It took me awhile“: author interview with Eric Schmidt, April 1, 2009.

136 ”CNET was banished“: Planet Google, Randall Stross, September 2008.

137 ”Because it was last minute“: author interview with Sergey Brin, March 26, 2008.

137 The Washington Post depicted the poor reception as a snub: Arshad Mohammed and Sara Kehaulani, ”Google is a Tourist in D.C., Brin Finds,“ Washington Post, June 7, 2006.

137 ”composed of ideological technologists“: author interview with Elliot Schrage, October 12, 2007.

138 ”One can make the argument“: author interview with Elliot Schrage, September 19, 2008.

138 ”in an important way, they are the same“: author interview with Lawrence Lessig, September 11, 2007.