IP: Deutsche Bahn to sue Google

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org>
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Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 08:26:58 -0400
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Subject: FW: Deutsche Bahn to sue Google

Deutsche Bahn to sue Google

By Joris Evers
April 16, 2002 8:54 am PT

DEUTSCHE BAHN, THE German national railway operator, will file suit
Wednesday against Google because the company's search engine provides links
to a Web site that offers instructions on how to sabotage railway systems,
Deutsche Bahn said Tuesday. Lawsuits against Yahoo and AltaVista also are
being prepared.

Deutsche Bahn recently sent letters to all three U.S. search engine
operators asking them to remove the hyperlinks to the online copies of two
articles from the German-language left-wing extremist publication, Radikal,
which has been outlawed in Germany. The articles detail how to cut power on
parts of the railway system.

"We wrote Google and told them that there is illegal content on their pages
and that they are linking to pages with illegal content. They have not
answered us, so we will file a lawsuit against Google in Germany tomorrow,"
said Christian Schreyer, head of the legal department for media and
competition law at Deutsche Bahn in Berlin.

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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/04/16/020416hngoogle.xml



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