<story><title>Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Some part of me wonders what would happen if they were to turn off Google to Canada for a day and list the judge&amp;#x27;s phone number as the person to complain to.&lt;p&gt;(Probably one very angry judge, but I wonder...)</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>This is insane.&lt;p&gt;The plaintiff, Equustek Solutions Inc., says the main defendant, Morgan Jack, sells networking devices that infringe on their trademark.&lt;p&gt;The defendant sells these things online; the plaintiff wants his websites to be dereferenced from Google.&lt;p&gt;The court agreed and asked Google to remove the links on all its properties worldwide (not just google.ca).&lt;p&gt;But what does Google have to do with this?&lt;p&gt;Why does the plaintiff not go after the infringer, to shut his websites down and&amp;#x2F;or fine him and&amp;#x2F;or get him in prison?&lt;p&gt;Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called &amp;quot;Morgan Jack&amp;quot; in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jacquesm</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve been party to a court session where the defendant tried to pull something like that. Let&amp;#x27;s just say I would advise against it, &amp;#x27;career limiting move&amp;#x27; does not even begin to describe it.</text></comment>
<story><title>Canadian court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide</title><url>http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/the-law-page/bc-court-seeking-global-reach-orders-google-to-block-sites/article19212708/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Natsu</author><text>Some part of me wonders what would happen if they were to turn off Google to Canada for a day and list the judge&amp;#x27;s phone number as the person to complain to.&lt;p&gt;(Probably one very angry judge, but I wonder...)</text></item><item><author>bambax</author><text>This is insane.&lt;p&gt;The plaintiff, Equustek Solutions Inc., says the main defendant, Morgan Jack, sells networking devices that infringe on their trademark.&lt;p&gt;The defendant sells these things online; the plaintiff wants his websites to be dereferenced from Google.&lt;p&gt;The court agreed and asked Google to remove the links on all its properties worldwide (not just google.ca).&lt;p&gt;But what does Google have to do with this?&lt;p&gt;Why does the plaintiff not go after the infringer, to shut his websites down and&amp;#x2F;or fine him and&amp;#x2F;or get him in prison?&lt;p&gt;Telling Google to remove the links (worldwide!!) is like issuing an injunction against all restaurants the world over to stop selling food to anyone called &amp;quot;Morgan Jack&amp;quot; in the remote chance it will have an effect on his business.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tempestn</author><text>Probably a lot of angry users, anti-trust proceedings, and a bunch of other stuff they don&amp;#x27;t want.</text></comment>