Yahoo! Liable In Italy For Searchable Content

Posted by Soulskill on Monday April 4, 2011 @06:28PM from the how-does-internet-work dept.

h3rr d0kt0r writes "A recent decision of an Italian court could spark considerable discussion over the liability of a search engines. The court actually ordered Yahoo! to remove any link to any site containing unlawful copies of a movie. Under EU Directives 2003/31, liability of search engines is not regulated (save for caching activities). In the case brought to court regarding the film About Elly, it was not the caching activities of Yahoo! that were questioned (or any content hosted on Yahoo!'s servers), but the mere fact that searching for the film made it possible to reach websites allowing the streaming or downloading of the movie (actually, illegal sites got a better ranking then the official one)."

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Re:yahoo by Anonymous Coward · 2011-04-04 18:41 · Score: 3, Funny

Bing! will come to save the day
Re:Poor Yahoo! can't catch a break by symbolset · 2011-04-04 18:49 · Score: 4, Funny

To be fair, the pirate sites are the relevant results. Who looks for a movie's "official" website?

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Re:No monetary liability it seems by sqlrob · 2011-04-05 03:55 · Score: 3, Funny

No, they shouldn't. Forget removing any pages that mention that.
Italy gets "Access Denied" in all search engines.