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saracen
September 26th, 2006, 04:19 PM
If not, check it out (http://www.google.be). Google was forced to publish the full text of a Belgian court's ruling against them on every single Google-Belgium webpage or else face 500,000 Euros/day in fines! Pretty ridiculous...

Explanation from the Google Blog here. (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/09/about-google-news-case-in-belgium.html)

mostwanted
September 26th, 2006, 05:18 PM
Seems the Belgians have some pretty messed up judges and/or copyright laws =/

Anyway, one can only laugh of the obscure ruling and hope this catches the eye of the common Belgian, so they can affect their politicians into creating less strict laws.

Ramses de Norre
September 26th, 2006, 05:26 PM
What the hell.. I'm belgian but I hadn't heard anything about this yet.
If I'm right they judged Google for showing cached information from sites which would be against the copyright law?

prizrak
September 26th, 2006, 06:23 PM
Pehaps the wind was from the Netherlands that day?

mips
September 26th, 2006, 06:36 PM
Pehaps the wind was from the Netherlands that day?

lol, I don't think the Belgians would appreciate that.