Google's drive to digitize all the world's books came to a skidding halt on Friday after a Paris court ruled that "Google had committed acts of copyright violations" by digitizing 4,000 of works from one of France's biggest publishing houses, La Martiniere.

The court ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros in damages to the three publishers owned by the La Martiniere group and a symbolic sum of one euro to the SNE Publishers' Association and the SGDL Society of  Authors. Google must also pay an additional 10,000 euro per day for each day the books, or parts that have been digitized, remained in its data-base.

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