Comments on: Google News-suing Copiepresse loves to look back

By: Belgian newspapers continue to attack news aggregators

Belgian newspapers continue to attack news aggregators — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:31:25 +0000

[...] a month ago I reported that Belgian newspaper publisher Copiepresse demanded that Google would pay €49 million to [...]

By: QS

QS — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:12:08 +0000

This seems a rather strange story. There’s an easy way out for both parties, and yet, according to the info in this post, neither are willing to make a move to end the dispute. Sounds fishy to me.

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:10:27 +0000

Why not just remove their site addresses from Google index? I think the newspapers would be hurt by NOT being listed.

By: Edial Dekker

Edial Dekker — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:01:52 +0000

@Jos I doubt Google can oblige Copiepresse to make a robot.txt; it’s yet another said story where old media tries to control everything. TechCrunch had a great article on this a few days ago as well http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/26/old-media-still-needs-to-get-over-its-control-issues/

By: Jos

Jos — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:34:17 +0000

I haven’t done a background check on this, but if it’s true then it makes me wonder what kind of lawyers Google hired in 2006? It *seems* that a lawsuit like this should be easily won since (like the article says) if Copiepresse REALLY cared, they would’ve taken 5 minutes of their time to create a robots.txt and block every spider from ever entering their website…