Dutch Court Rules That Linking Is Legal In Scientology Case

touretzky writes "The Court of Appeal in The Hague today rejected all of Scientology's claims in appeal in Scientology's action against XS4ALL, Karin Spaink and ten other internet providers. As a result, Karin Spaink's website, which Scientology sought to remove from the Internet based on copyright claims, is entirely legal in the Netherlands. The court also overturned two lower court rulings, one of which said that linking to material that infringed a copyright was itself actionable. The other ruling said that ISPs that failed to act on credible notification of a copyright violation could be held liable for that. The Appeals Court felt that this was too vague a standard, and thus posed a threat to free speech. More info at ScientologyWatch.org."

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Googlebombing

[MichaelCrawford]

Please help make operation clambake the #1 search hit for "scientology" by posting a link like the following from any web page:

• The Church of Scientology

The way Googlebombing works is that Google also uses the text of links to a page for matching. For example, a search for "dumb motherfucker" used to bring up a page that was quite supportive of President Bush.

If Operation Clambake were the #1 search hit, then it would be the result for the "I'm feeling lucky" button on google.