Yahoo! Liable In Italy For Searchable Content 145
h3rr d0kt0r writes "A recent decision of an Italian court could spark considerable discussion over the liability of a search engines. The court actually ordered Yahoo! to remove any link to any site containing unlawful copies of a movie. Under EU Directives 2003/31, liability of search engines is not regulated (save for caching activities). In the case brought to court regarding the film About Elly, it was not the caching activities of Yahoo! that were questioned (or any content hosted on Yahoo!'s servers), but the mere fact that searching for the film made it possible to reach websites allowing the streaming or downloading of the movie (actually, illegal sites got a better ranking then the official one)."
Re:yahoo (Score:4, Informative)
without google, bing's results will just return gibberish.
Re:Replace their respective pages with a message (Score:5, Informative)
Please note that Baidu is mostly owned and operated by Goldman Sachs, not by the Chinese government. Also the majority of it's board members are US citizens.
There is a government sponsored search engine, but the fact that you don't even know it's name says enough.
Spellcheck (Score:1, Informative)