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"A Belgian appeals court has upheld an earlier ruling that Google infringes on newspapers' copyright when its services display and link to content from newspaper websites, according to press reports." -- Source

Weren't we done with this? Didn't France already try this to great extent until it got roundly told to stop fucking up the internet?

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[necessitysslave]

"I begin to see why Douglas Adams picked that word as the worst swear word in the Universe"

[darkgodfred]

I've got a simple solution. Any time a company that wins a copyright infringement case saying how dare people provide links to their content then everyone else stops linking to them.

Including the root name servers linking to their domain.

If you cannot play nicely with the rest of the Internet then you can play alone.

[renaissanced]

Why doesn't the newsmedia understand that Google is an aggregator, that I go there to get bits from all over the web and then follow links back to their site? :I Free advertising, no way that's horrible. And pffft, France. I didn't hear about it when it happened but it doesn't surprise me now.

What a sweet Reverend, I want him to drive my body.