Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google

Posted by timothy on Friday July 15, 2011 @07:57PM from the you-will-not-be-assimilated dept.

D H NG writes "After being ordered by the Belgian courts to 'remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers,' Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services. The newspapers, however, are crying foul, and alleged that it was done in retaliation for being sued for copyright violations."

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Re:Uh, tough? by cyberthanasis12 · 2011-07-15 20:40 · Score: 5, Interesting

Welcome to the unintended consequences of your actions. Next time think about what you're doing a little harder.
What unintended? That's what they asked for, that's what they got. I am all for EU, I am European myself, but for once an American company did exactly what the court ordered. And now we complain?