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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by smanek on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:03AM (#1147991)
The Google blog says: The video was totally reprehensible and we took it down within hours of being notified by the Italian police.

What more can you reasonably expect them to do?

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by mattjung on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:14AM (#1148012)
How long would it have taken until such content had been removed at Hacker News? I guess not more than 30 minutes. Two months = #fail. A simple flag-feature would probably already do it... I hope Google draws the right conclusion from this failure.
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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by davidw on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:16AM (#1148017)
The right conclusion to draw is that doing business in Italy is a nightmare:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/02/03/italy-vs-google

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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by mattjung on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:22AM (#1148023)
I disagree. The same conviction could have happened in any other European country and very probably also in the United States. Any legal experts here?
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Re:Serious threat to the web in Italy by Devilboy on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @06:11PM (#1149488)
That's just complete bullcrap. One of the reasons the DMCA exists in the US is to protect companies like Google in exactly this type of situation. Many EU countries have similar laws
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