Google Relents, Publishes Belgian Ruling

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Saturday September 23, 2006 @09:28AM from the who-is-afraid-of-belgium dept.

gambit3 writes "Google on Saturday published on its Belgian website a court order which forbids the Internet search engine to reproduce snippets of Belgian press on its news amalgamation service. The move constituted a u-turn as Google had said on Friday that it would not comply with the court order despite facing a fine of 500,000 euros ($640,900) daily if it did not publish the ruling." From the article: "Google said its service is lawful and drives traffic to newspaper sites because people need to click through to the original publisher to read the full story. It now displays stories from news agencies, foreign newspapers and Internet sites belonging to local television stations."

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The court order is meaningless by Rude+Turnip · 2006-09-23 09:44 · Score: 3, Funny

I went over to www.google.be. No one will know what's going on--the whole thing is written in Belgian. Brilliant, Google!

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1. Re:The court order is meaningless by hey · 2006-09-23 10:28 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Your post seems to be in American.
As an act of protest... by falsified · 2006-09-23 12:05 · Score: 3, Funny

I will now boycott Stella Artois!
....eh, fuck this. *cracks another one open*

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