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Posts tagged: legal
US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook
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 case has been a remarkable one. Concerned about counterfeiting, Chanel has filed a joint suit in Nevada against nearly 700 domain names that appear to have nothing in common. When Chanel finds more names, it simply uses the same case and files new requests for more seizures. (A recent November 14 order went after an additional 228 sites; none had a chance to contest the request until after it was approved and the names had been seized.)
Via Hillary Hartley on G+, where she adds, “Why wait for SOPA?” newsweek:journo-geekery:
Finland has become the first country in the world to make broadband a legal right for every citizen.
From 1 July every Finn will have the right to access to a 1Mbps (megabit per second) broadband connection.
Finland has vowed to connect everyone to a 100Mbps connection by 2015.
Legalize (via peetypassion, Which Witch)
of legality and the banner of justice.
A customer of T-Mobile has sued that company alleging that T-Mobile violated her rights under the laws of various states, as well as federal law, by imposing flat-rate ETFs. The Court has allowed the lawsuit to be a class action for the purposes of settlement. The Settlement Class includes all subscribers to T-Mobile with personal accounts who paid or were charged a flat-rate ETF at some time during the period July 23, 1999 through February 19, 2009, and/or who have or had a contract for service with T-Mobile that included a flat-rate ETF at some time during the period July 23, 1999 through February 19, 2009.
I just filed for this. T-Mobile charged me (ETF) to leave my contract back when I switched to Sprint and, if this class action wins, it looks like I’ll get $125 of it back!
I’ll bet OJ makes more headlines. You know it’s true.
via marco
”.. city lawmakers today approved a ban on plastic grocery bags, a first for a U.S. city. The law adopted on a 10-1 vote requires large markets and drug stores to give customers only the choice of bags made of paper that can be recycled, plastic that breaks down easily…”
