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French Tell Google To Cut Links To Offending Sites

  • Gigaom, Monday, December 2, 2013 2:26 PM

It seems copyright-related site-blocking is becoming more popular in Europe. In the latest example, a French court has ordered not only local internet service providers but also Google and other search engines to pretend that 16 video-streaming sites don’t exist. The Paris High Court ruled that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo must all remove links to services such as dpstream and Fifostream, which carry copyright-infringing material, from their results (or “did carry” — it looks like Fifostream has actually shut down now). 

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