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Stories · 5

  1. Anonymous Web Hosting Banned In France

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the that-ain't-so-cool dept. · 278 comments
    An anonymous reader writes,"French free Webhosting services are now not so free anymore (In French!). In fact the French National Assembly has decided that anyone wanting to host some Web pages on a server has to identify himself. If this is not done, it's the server administrator who is responsible for any contents of the pages ... The immediate consequence for this is that free Web hosting services in France, like altern.org or multimania.com, won't be able to continue. "

  2. Anonymous Web Hosting Banned In France

    Internet · · posted by ryuzaki0 · from the that-ain't-so-cool dept. · 278 comments
    An anonymous reader writes,"French free Webhosting services are now not so free anymore (In French!). In fact the French National Assembly has decided that anyone wanting to host some Web pages on a server has to identify himself. If this is not done, it's the server administrator who is responsible for any contents of the pages ... The immediate consequence for this is that free Web hosting services in France, like altern.org or multimania.com, won't be able to continue. "

  3. Yahoo! Threatens French-Language Site Over Parody

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by Roblimo · from the hitting-close-to-home dept. · 181 comments
    groov3 writes " A French-language Slashdot-style weblog called pssst received this afternoon a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing Yahoo! They asked them to remove a parody site called Yahoo! Québec (site in French). Problem is: they're not the authors. It seems Yahoo!'s lawyers cannot properly read HTML or URLs. Another amusing case of legal cluelessness. A local online tech news site called Multimédium has more details (in French again)." a limp Babelfish translation of the Multimédium story seems to imply that Yahoo!'s big problem with the parody is the use of the "Yahoo!" trademark and logo itself, changed only by the addition of the word "Quebec." Any French-speaking Slashdot readers care to help us English monolinguists out on this one?Click below for more explanation:

    Morph3us writes "Here's some more info on the cease and desist letter from Yahoo! inc. to the French-language weblog pssst! Actually, what Yahoo! INC. doesn't like in this parody is the fact that it is using the actual logo of Yahoo!, with the single addition of the word "Québec" in a very similar font. Also, the search engine used in the parody was searching in a porn site database. Both of these facts could lure visitors into thinking that Yahoo! inc. was associated with the site and was offering a porn site search engine. Pssst doesn't have any power on the site Yahoo! Quebec and even on the link to it in Pssst, because it was posted by an anonymous contributor (although I guess they could delete it from the database). This contributor is also the author of the site and of the first message posted on Slashdot about this story. The author of the site sent me an e-mail today mentionning he had changed the search engine to seek in the Vatican's web site ("from one extreme to the other" as he told me!). He also plans to modify the logo to Youhou! instead of Yahoo! But there's no intention of removing the site at the moment. "

  4. Yahoo! Threatens French-Language Site Over Parody

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by Roblimo · from the hitting-close-to-home dept. · 181 comments
    groov3 writes " A French-language Slashdot-style weblog called pssst received this afternoon a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing Yahoo! They asked them to remove a parody site called Yahoo! Québec (site in French). Problem is: they're not the authors. It seems Yahoo!'s lawyers cannot properly read HTML or URLs. Another amusing case of legal cluelessness. A local online tech news site called Multimédium has more details (in French again)." a limp Babelfish translation of the Multimédium story seems to imply that Yahoo!'s big problem with the parody is the use of the "Yahoo!" trademark and logo itself, changed only by the addition of the word "Quebec." Any French-speaking Slashdot readers care to help us English monolinguists out on this one?Click below for more explanation:

    Morph3us writes "Here's some more info on the cease and desist letter from Yahoo! inc. to the French-language weblog pssst! Actually, what Yahoo! INC. doesn't like in this parody is the fact that it is using the actual logo of Yahoo!, with the single addition of the word "Québec" in a very similar font. Also, the search engine used in the parody was searching in a porn site database. Both of these facts could lure visitors into thinking that Yahoo! inc. was associated with the site and was offering a porn site search engine. Pssst doesn't have any power on the site Yahoo! Quebec and even on the link to it in Pssst, because it was posted by an anonymous contributor (although I guess they could delete it from the database). This contributor is also the author of the site and of the first message posted on Slashdot about this story. The author of the site sent me an e-mail today mentionning he had changed the search engine to seek in the Vatican's web site ("from one extreme to the other" as he told me!). He also plans to modify the logo to Youhou! instead of Yahoo! But there's no intention of removing the site at the moment. "

  5. Yahoo! Threatens French-Language Site Over Parody

    Yro · Censorship · · posted by Roblimo · from the hitting-close-to-home dept. · 181 comments
    groov3 writes " A French-language Slashdot-style weblog called pssst received this afternoon a cease and desist letter from lawyers representing Yahoo! They asked them to remove a parody site called Yahoo! Québec (site in French). Problem is: they're not the authors. It seems Yahoo!'s lawyers cannot properly read HTML or URLs. Another amusing case of legal cluelessness. A local online tech news site called Multimédium has more details (in French again)." a limp Babelfish translation of the Multimédium story seems to imply that Yahoo!'s big problem with the parody is the use of the "Yahoo!" trademark and logo itself, changed only by the addition of the word "Quebec." Any French-speaking Slashdot readers care to help us English monolinguists out on this one?Click below for more explanation:

    Morph3us writes "Here's some more info on the cease and desist letter from Yahoo! inc. to the French-language weblog pssst! Actually, what Yahoo! INC. doesn't like in this parody is the fact that it is using the actual logo of Yahoo!, with the single addition of the word "Québec" in a very similar font. Also, the search engine used in the parody was searching in a porn site database. Both of these facts could lure visitors into thinking that Yahoo! inc. was associated with the site and was offering a porn site search engine. Pssst doesn't have any power on the site Yahoo! Quebec and even on the link to it in Pssst, because it was posted by an anonymous contributor (although I guess they could delete it from the database). This contributor is also the author of the site and of the first message posted on Slashdot about this story. The author of the site sent me an e-mail today mentionning he had changed the search engine to seek in the Vatican's web site ("from one extreme to the other" as he told me!). He also plans to modify the logo to Youhou! instead of Yahoo! But there's no intention of removing the site at the moment. "