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This isn't quite correct as people submit thier sites to DMOZ (amongst other directories) and therefore explicitly agree to the use of their material for their mutual benefit.
Google just assumes that you'll agree, which is fine now, as of course everyone will agree, but their success is based on this assumption, if they hadn't done it they would not be the position that they are now?
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Actually, many if not most of the sites listed in DMOZ are not submitted but are located and listed by editors. And as DMOZ editors are quick to point out, they do not even consider submitted sites to be submissions at all but merely "suggestions", which is one of the reasons they use for ignoring (as opposed to rejecting) many of the sites submitted.
Sites listed in that way are no different from the ones that Google indexes. Additionally, webmasters frequently submit their sites to Google for indexing and even go to great lengths (e.g., Google sitemaps) to ensure that Google doesn't overlook them.
Ask I, Brian about his recent experience with DMOZ when he tried to get the listing for his site removed. This was HIS site, remember. And the response that he got from editors was in essence, "This is our directory and we'll list whatever we want. We will not remove your site. It's none of your business." Fortunately, he did eventually get an editor who wasn't a moron to at least move his site to the correct geographical subdirectory but I don't thaink that was actually what I, Brian was requesting or objecting to.
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You can't search a site without knowing it's content!?
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Presumably I can't recommend a book either without being at least somewhat aware of its content yet I do that on almost every page at the main
www.Psychlinks.ca websote -- is that copyright infringement?