When selling copies stopped bringing in big money for the content industry, publishers and other middlemen were looking for new sources of revenue. First there was the blank media tax. Then came suing consumers for consuming content not strictly the way the industry liked it. Now they seem to have found a new way to cash in — this time the victim is Google. Instead of thanking the search giant for drawing the consumer's attention to content, they (and the US judicial system) believe that Google should pay for that. In 2005 it was "the authors" (read publishing houses), now it is the photographers and graphic artists (or is it the stock image trade?); see http://www.scribd.com/doc/29558631/ASMP-Google-Copyright-Infringement-Lawsuit-from-American-Society-of-Photographers. What will be the next step?