Google Wins a Court Battle

Gosalia wrote to let us know about an article which opens with: "In a legal win for Google, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a writer who claimed the search giant infringed on his copyright by archiving a Usenet posting of his and providing excerpts from his Web site in search results." Thankfully, we can all still read Usenet articles on Google as well as other archive services.

Comments

Re:Interesting Products...

[Cl1mh4224rd]

According to the ZDNet write-up, he does business as the Snodgrass Publishing Group, who have some interesting offerings at a site they own called "cybersheet.com".

The Elite Player's Guide to Getting Laid.

1) Sue Google.
2) ???
3) Get laid!

Re:What was he thinking ?

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

I have always wondered what those guys suing for anything _really_ think ? For example, does this guy honestly thought Google was violating his copyright ? Or did he sue just to give a try and maybe obtain easy money via financial compensation ?

He's in the porn business. He sued for publicity.

Suegle

[JRGhaddar]

Google should just start "Suegle" so we all can set up our own personal lawsuits against google.

Features include:

-the ability to blog about the lawsuit and how much of google's money we are trying to get.

-RSS feeds of the latest filings & verdicts

-Lawyers oncall via GTalk

feel free to add any I'm missing

Re:Interesting Products...

[publius_jr]

I own this classic, and seminal, guide and happened to notice that you only gave the concise form of the `genius plan' (as the author frequently calls it). The plan branches into two detailed versions based on frequency of occurence. I figured the Slashdot crowd (of all crowds) could benefit from the detail.

The uncommon form, but `the one most guys, idiots, anticipate' (69) is:

1. Sue Google.
2. Win
3. Profit!
4. Get laid!

This is the uncommon form because rarely do you ever win the lawsuit. If you should happen to win, however, we can explicitly extract `Profit!' from `???' in the concise form to get the uncommon form just above. In this case 4) is a corollary to 3); everyone knows that `when you've got the riches you can lay the bitches' (138). But we really do not expect to win the lawsuit, so the above information is included mainly for completeness.

The common form, the `one you paid $43.95 to see' (inside flap), is:

1. Sue Google.
2. Lose.
3. Get Laid!

The main gem of this classic work is the knowledge that `hotties love losers' (207).

So, to sum up, hotties love money and hotties love losers. By suing Google you are destined to either lose or get rich. In either case, you will get laid!

Re:Cash Grab Suit?

[Matilda the Hun]

Actually, I wouldn't mind a "dismissing total fucktards" precedent being set by this. Not much chance, but I can dream.