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by ToadyCensored 5454 days ago
The lawsuit was over the use of copyrighted excerpts from articles in the Google News aggregator and cache, such as lead paragraphs.

Google is trying to pretend that the court ruled all hyperlinks to be illegal. Google was defiant before over this ruling when it ignored an order to publish the results of the verdict on its website, so it's not far-fetched to believe Google is once again throwing its weight around and reminding people of the power it wields over the livelihoods of content creators.