RE: [dvd-discuss] ``irreparable damage to my client''

["Dean Sanchez" <DSanchez(at)fcci-group.com>]

You would think that Google would be actively defending itself.  Otherwise, as more and more links are removed, its value as a search engine is diminished.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Hosgood [mailto:steve@caederus.com]
Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 10:10 AM
To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] ``irreparable damage to my client'' 


> who will support Google's right to host old 
> alt.sex.spanking stories?
> 

Surely Google aren't *hosting* the stories - just providing links to hosts
in reply to queries?

Can't Google defend themselves against this abuse by claiming freedom of
the press? Effectively that's what they're doing isn't it? - they're
reporters reporting on the contents of internet (if you know what I mean).

The only difference between their actions and that of the staff of a newspaper
is that their 'reporter' is a machine.

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