Partial Victory for Perfect 10?

An anonymous reader writes "Internet News is reporting that a recent statement made by district court judge A. Howard Matz has declared a partial victory for Perfect 10 in their efforts to stop search engines from displaying their photos in an image search. From the article: 'Perfect 10 is likely to succeed in proving that Google directly infringes its copyright by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs. Perfect 10's copyright infringement case may take years to wend its way through the courts. But a victory could hamstring image search, along with video and audio search services.'"

Comments

This could spell troublle for GooglePrint as well

[Anonymous Coward]

...not that it's not already in trouble.

won't this be ubiquitous soon enough?

[Anonymous Coward]

With any luck companies will get over themselves and realize that these sort of efforts a) annoy users b) clog the legal system with garbage c) attempt to put the internet back to the 90s, d) all of the above?

Think I'm gonna shoot for (d). Will it really matter if they win by the time it actually could happen? Remember that modern internet speeds are as much a result of cacheing as with actual bandwidth increases, stopping a valuable service like the google image search could double backfire if they have something to sell and need to get the word out.

It's been said and said again, but here I go: Most content producers have more to fear from obscurity than piracy.