US judge orders hundreds of sites "de-indexed" from Google, Facebook
Ars reports on the setting of a ominous precident:
After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered “all Internet search engines” and “all social media websites”—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google , Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to “de-index” the domain names and to remove them from any search results.
The worst part is the defendants in the suit are all underground, fly-by-night importers who never showed up, let alone was able to afford lawyers. The precident is set without sufficient argument against.
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It’s hard to point out the worst part. I would have thought the defendants not being US citizens or US based businesses...
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