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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."

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  1. Re:free speech is in the german consitution by frost22 · · Score: 2, Redundant
    [redundant. I said this before]

    So you Quote Art 5 GG:
    1) Everyone has the right freely to express and to disseminate his opinion
    Pathetic. Note sentence (2), which makes the article essentially worthless.

    Try a little proof of concept: Write a short tutorial on how to capture the flag in Unreal Tornament. Put it up on your web site. Get hauled to jail.
    Most of the restrictions of the free speech are because the content of the speech is against the constiution
    You actually believe that propaganda line, do you ? My ass! Stalin used to call people like you "usefull idiots".

    People even get convicted for telling politically incorrect jokes in this country (Germany, that is. I live there).

    Fuck censorship!
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    ...and here I stand, with all my lore, poor fool, no wiser than before.
  2. Re:Not the cache. by Alsee · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Just like Napster weren't responsible for the copyrighted music that it's users were sharing?

    Correct. Napster losing in court was bull. It's the same as the Betamax case where the movie industry tried to make VRC's illegal. They fought that case all the way to the supreme court.

    File transfer is an extremely common program feature. I have at least a dozzen programs on my computer that allow me to transmit any file - and not a single one is a "Napster clone". Game services support it. Instant messengers supports it. E-mail supports it. FTP supports it. Web broswers support it. IRC supprts it. Remote administration supports it. Virtual Private Network (VPN) supports it. The list goes on and on.

    Any of those programs can be used to transfer any type of file. I'm sure every single one of those programs has been used to transfer a copyrighted file by someone at some time. Guess we have to make them all illegal.

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    - - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.