EightBlack.

This story, courtesy of The Age.

I don’t know about you - but I don’t know what this legal action achieved.

Ok, fair enough. If someone infringes copyright, then take them to task. Threatening to fine them a million euro a day is another thing.

And you can be sure the fine won’t be paid.

This story is about a consortium of mostly french language newspapers (19 in fact) - who engaged a copyright infringement group to act on their behalf. They insisted that the search giant remove old content from their indexes.

To me thats crazy. Anything that prevents people consuming content is just plain silly.

And pissing off the world’s most influential technology company is just plain dangerous.

While I know Google isn’t supposed to be “evil”, I wouldn’t put too much hope on these 19 newspaper sites being indexed too much in the future and if they know anything about “pagerank”, they’ll wish they never raised the issue at all. They’ll regret simply not sending a stern letter.

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