--- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:41:20 +0200 (CEST) From: Martin Virtel <virtelat_private> To: politechat_private Subject: german railway lawsuit against google Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204171139070.4998-100000at_private> The interesting bit: they plan to sue in Germany because they think their case won't win against the US 1st ammendment. Second interesting bit: Google in Germany consists of three salespeople, full stop. The IDG story is inaccurate in one point: they are not going to sue today (Wednesday), Google has until Friday to comply. M -- Martin Virtel Internet Correspondent, Financial Times Deutschland mobile +49 / 177 / 242 2889 text pager (subject line only) mat_private ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:52:36 +0200 (Westeuropäische Sommerzeit) From: Martin Virtel <virtel.martinat_private> To: eileenat_private Subject: deutsche bahn lawsuit against google see below -- Martin Virtel Financial Times Deutschland Team IT / Medien Stubbenhuk 3 20459 Hamburg fixed +49 / 40 / 31990 / 245 wireless / fax +49 / 177 / 242 2889 pager 01772422889at_private ----------------------------------- read me: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:ftd.de+virtel&filter=0 email virtel.martinat_private AIM / Yahoo Messenger / ICQ mvftd German railway operator to sue Google over sabotage links By JORIS EVERS, IDG NEWS SERVICE (April 16, 2002) Deutsche Bahn AG, the German national railway operator, plans to file suit tomorrow against Google Inc. because the company's search engine provides links to a Web site that offers instructions on how to sabotage railway systems, Deutsche Bahn said Tuesday. Lawsuits against Yahoo Inc. and AltaVista Co. also are being prepared. ADVERTISEMENT Deutsche Bahn recently sent letters to all three U.S. search engine operators asking them to remove the hyperlinks to the online copies of two articles from the German-language, left-wing extremist publication Radikal, which has been outlawed in Germany. The articles detail how to cut power on parts of the railway system. "We wrote Google and told them that there is illegal content on their pages and that they are linking to pages with illegal content. They have not answered us, so we will file a lawsuit against Google in Germany tomorrow," said Christian Schreyer, head of the legal department for media and competition law at Deutsche Bahn in Berlin. [...] Deutsche Bahn will file suit in Germany, where all three search engine companies have subsidiaries, because it feels it wouldn't stand a chance in a U.S. court because the of freedom of speech allowed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "There is no chance to sue them in the U.S. You are really allowed to put anything on the Internet there," Schreyer said. Related stories: http://www.computerworld.com/storyba/0,4125,NAV47_STO70203,00.html --- From: jean-hugues.vignaudat_private Subject: Re: FC: Judge orders XS4ALL to remove two pages, mirror sites sprout To: declanat_private Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:49:28 +0200 Hi Declan, do you think they will sue any site who have a link to these pages ? _____________ German Railroad Set To Sue AltaVista, Google, Yahoo http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2002/0416suegoogle.html Source: Network World, via The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk (Gary Price's blog) http://resourceshelf.blogspot.com/ >From the article, "Deutsche Bahn AG, the German national railway operator, Wednesday will file suit against Google because the company's search engine provides links to a Web site that offers instructions on how to sabotage railway systems, Deutsche Bahn said Tuesday. Lawsuits against Yahoo and AltaVista also are being prepared." --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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