France: No Google Text Ads For Trademarked Words

ASN writes "Reuters reports that a French court barred Google from providing text ads with search results for trademarked terms, except those from the trademark owner (in this case, 'Bourse des vols,' potentially -- 'Microsoft,' 'Scientology' even 'Linux'). According to Reuters, 'If it was upheld on appeal and validated in other countries the decision could force the search services to pre-screen search terms for trademarks before letting advertisers use them.' Google was fined 75,000 euros for the practice, and would have to pay 1,500 euro for each further infraction while appeal is underway (which makes one wonder if Google is paying for this)."

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[Mod Me God]

Nice troll.

Aside from the fact no biological weapons have been discovered in any mass scale, and none at all that were at the end of their use date (i.e., Iraq had produced no WMDs in years - why invade now?). I favour regime change, just mythical reasons should not be used to justify it.

Also, 28 days later was not a film about bio weapons, it was an analogy for society as it exists now. The 'virus' transferred was called 'rage' in the film... one was infected by another inflicting it upon them... it was created in the first place by overexposure to violence... it is an analogy to the society we live in where we are over exposed to biolence, where we take it for granted and wher we don't realise it exiss already [in the film the army regiment were afflicted by a form of rage, though different from the all-out virus, their 'infection' was the one society now has - try to battle an enemy but become absorbed by hate - the virus only absorbed them when they had already destroyed themselves].