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Partial Victory for Perfect 10?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the responsible-but-not-liable dept.

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.'"

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  1. Oh, honestly... by ceejayoz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    http://images.google.com/webmasters/remove.html

    To remove all the images on your site from our index, place the following robots.txt file in your server root:

    User-agent: Googlebot-Image
    Disallow: /

  2. Why does Google bother with these people... by HoofArted · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I cannot understand why Google bothers to argue the case with people like this. So you don't want your site images indexed, thats fine, Google should remove ALL references to your site from their index. When you traffic has dropped to the point of your site's death, come back and talk!


    Come on Google, you have better things to worry about.

  3. Looks like they already fixed it by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Google image searching site:www.perfect10.com/ brings up 0 images. Also, googling Perfect 10 brings up their site. So it appears they have blocked images and allowed text perfectly fine.

    I was using Safari on OS X 10.4.4, with Safe Search off in Private Browsing mode if anyone gets different results somehow. Also checked with Firefox 1.5.0.1 Don't think that that makes a difference.