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Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by derekp7 on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:34PM (#7204391)
Would it be reasonable for, say, a car manufacturer to be forced to include a statement painted on the side of each car they sold for a period of time? Or a consumer electronics manufacture to have an apology statement on, say, a TV that gets displayed whenever you change channels? Something like that would severely damage their product. So why is it reasonable to require a tech company to deface their product? Now it wouldn't be as bad for some companies, where their main domain points to an information page, but the main page for Google is an application page, not a "web" page. This just feels like a bad precedent -- what happens when this is forced on another company, who's application front end isn't conducive to having arbitrary text on it (I'm thinking of like map programs, word processing, presentation apps, etc).
Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by nraynaud on Sunday February 09, 2014 @12:30AM (#7204507)
Actually French law has specific provisions for media companies. Like if there is a defamation, generally one of the sanction is a message taking the same size and spot as the defamation. In other cases, the sanction if to buy some ad space in the press to put the specific sanction message (for example, after defrauding the shareholders in a publicly traded company). In local nasty cases of defamation, it can just be a message in a local newspapers (like a shop defaming another through a sign or a nasty political fight).

edit: to really answer, there is what we call "individualization of the sanction", where the court decide what would make sense as a sanction inside a palette (and to answer by advance: if a court decides something, yes it's appealable).

Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by gress on Saturday February 08, 2014 @11:39PM (#7204400)
It would be reasonable for a car manufacturer to include a statement on their website, even if it happened to include a search box.
Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by gcb0 on Sunday February 09, 2014 @04:32AM (#7204978)
did you ever looked in the passenger sunscreen?

also, how do a web site email their customers and issue a recall on their private information that was already illegally shared away?

your analogy is awful.

furthermore, the precedent is already set. just look at the millions of european sites and their cookie warnings... its the same thing. why google should be exempt in this case which is essentially the same thing?

Re:Google Loses Appeal, Forced to Publish €150,000 Fine on G... by cscurmudgeon on Sunday February 09, 2014 @07:51AM (#7205366)
If a car manufacturer failed on their core responsibility (safely transporting people), they would be happy to get just a notice on the car!