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Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 5, 2011 @06:19AM from the now-that's-an-edit-war dept.

hcs_$reboot writes "A French court ordered a company to pay 25,000 Euros to a competitor about which she had removed the name of a Wikipedia entry dedicated to her field. Hi-Media, the defendant, was identified thanks to her IP address found from the Wikipedia page."

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Wikipedia admins beware by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-05 06:25 · Score: 3, Funny

Now we can sue you for recommending our pages for speedy deletion. Take that!
Re:Attempted summary by Anonymous Coward · 2011-07-05 07:06 · Score: 3, Funny

I dropped out of this conversation on account of AC being insane. He/she would frequently burst into rants about his/her high school French teacher being insane.
Re:Horribly Summary by smitty97 · 2011-07-05 08:07 · Score: 4, Funny

Were they forced to make 5 million payments of 0.005 euros each?

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