Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video

Re:Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video by TrevorJ on Monday February 02, 2009 @11:52PM (#463516)

Edit* this must be why google patented the floating offshore datacenters...so they can operate outside of territorial waters and evade extradition.

If Exec's are directly personally responsible for content created by user's of a site in Italy it kinda makes you think twice about operating a site there. Pretty scary actually. I don't condone the video, nor do I think web services should not take some responsibility to monitor content, but it's not feasible or sane to assume they can catch all or most of what might be illegal in one country or the other.

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Re:Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video by jacquesm on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @09:41AM (#464040)

I don't know why they would get a patent on something that obvious. They could simply do it without needing a patent.

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Re:Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video by jcl on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @10:35AM (#464095)

Moreover, if a company copied them to gain similar legal immunity, who would they sue for patent infringement?

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Re:Google Executives Face Jail Time for Italian Video by Retric on Tuesday February 03, 2009 @10:25AM (#464084)

Until the patent troll shows up. While it's slightly cheaper to just disclose the idea, filing a patent helps the patent office avoid granting a patent on the same idea.

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