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Deutsche Bahn to Sue Google

Posted by timothy on from the but-not-in-the-u.s. dept.

Many readers including this Anonymous Coward have written about this case: "After the DB-Deutsche Bahn (German railway comp.) won a case against Dutch ISP xs4all to remove 2 articles that were hosted on one of their servers, the DB now is going to sue Google (Wednesday) and probably in 2 days time Yahoo! and Altavista. Infoworld has an article about it. More background information about previous attempts to censor the same site can be found here and here's list of mirrors." And Yes, "Access is Forbidden."

8 of 515 comments (clear)

  1. Google's defense... by kzinti · · Score: 3, Funny

    Google's defense: I know NOTH-ing. I see NOTH-ing. I hear NOTH-ing...

    Germans will believe that, right?

  2. Forbidden Access by JeanBaptiste · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad its apache, for if it was IIS then I could just hack in...



    Save money- vote Republican

  3. Re:Just out of curiosity... by -brazil- · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nope, the content is not legal. That's why DB successfully sued the ISP in the Netherlands. Now they want Google links and caches to be removed as well.

    --

    The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
    --Henry Kissinger

  4. Re:Just out of curiosity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Giving google 2 days to respond? It probably takes Deutsche Post more than 2 days to deliver the letter!

  5. Re:Contents by mccalli · · Score: 5, Funny
    In the UK, the train movements from power stations etc. are available and are on regular schedules.

    The regular schedule being "we haven't a clue when we're leaving or arriving either, and yes - you will be delayed along the way". As per every other UK train.

    Cheers,
    Iam

  6. Re:subsidiaries by Zerth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's see if that works.

    8 Steps to Terrorism

    1. Learn to wiggle a yoke without crash.
    2. Let pilot take off.
    3. Hijack plane.
    4. Follow a hiway to a city.
    5. Point at tallest building.
    6. Try to keep the plane level.
    7.

    Hang on, there's someone at the door, I'll post the other 2 in a minute

  7. Re:And the interesting part is... by Darren+Winsper · · Score: 2, Funny

    Isn't that somewhat akin to the great firewall of China?

  8. Re:Not again by 5KVGhost · · Score: 2, Funny
    OTOH, these are very legal concerns that the linked pages contain information that, in the hands of the wrong party could be dangerous to their operations, and being a public utility, they have to be concerned.

    And, of course, removing web pages and censoring search results will save us all.

    Here's an actual transript obtained from the idyllic future that awaits us:

    [a German terrorist meeting]

    Heinrich: "I have an idea! Let's sabotage a railway!"

    Günther: "Brilliant! I'll do a Google search to show us how!"

    [typing sounds]

    Günther: "Curses! Google has no information on sabotaging German railways!"

    Heinrich: "Oh, well. Nevermind. Let's go drink some beer."

    [transcript ends]

    Amazing. I know I'm convinced!