Thursday, February 25, 2010
COPS: I worked on a project with Hector Garcia-Molina involving automated detection of copyright violations. Together with James Davis (another Ph.D. student here), we developed COPS, the COpyright Protection System. The paper (html) appeared in SIGMOD ‘95.

This quote is from Sergey Brin’s resume ( 7-Jan-1996)

Is it just me or does anyone else find this ironic given the copyright controversy over Google News, Google Books, and YouTube?

I hope Chris Dixon calls me out for improper usage of the word “ironic.” That’s a wall of shame I’d be delighted to be a part of.