Belgian Newspapers Delisted On Google 385
D H NG writes "After being ordered by the Belgian courts to 'remove from its Google.be and Google.com sites, and in particular, cached links visible on Google Web and the Google News service, all articles, photographs and graphics of daily newspapers published in French and German by Belgian publishers,' Google had removed all traces of the newspapers in question from all its search services. The newspapers, however, are crying foul, and alleged that it was done in retaliation for being sued for copyright violations."
Of course it was done in retaliation! (Score:5, Funny)
So they thought that "pay us for using our content" meant "now you have to use our content and then pay us". Oops, maybe not!
It does sound like a particularly (French-)Belgian idea, though. Next we'll hear they are parking tractors on the Information Superhighway in protest...
Re:Of course it was done in retaliation. (Score:5, Funny)
Here is the business plan of these newspapers:
1) Sue Google
2) Win , but be delisted
3) Wait for Bing to pay a license fee for their content
4) Profit !
Bing will easily attract the million of viewers that Google was providing.