Partial Victory for Perfect 10?

An anonymous reader writes "Internet News is reporting that a recent statement made by district court judge A. Howard Matz has declared a partial victory for Perfect 10 in their efforts to stop search engines from displaying their photos in an image search. From the article: 'Perfect 10 is likely to succeed in proving that Google directly infringes its copyright by creating and displaying thumbnail copies of its photographs. Perfect 10's copyright infringement case may take years to wend its way through the courts. But a victory could hamstring image search, along with video and audio search services.'"

Just start hotlinking.

[Spazntwich]

Google could just start hotlinking the pics directly from their site, then resizing them to thumnails in the search.

That wouldn't be copyright infringement, right? Just yanking publicly hosted photographs from their rightful and providing owner.

You failzor!

[Anonymous Coward]

You actually got FP, so you suxxor.

I for one am glad....

[bmvaughn]

....that Slashdot recognizes my ability to get pirated porn under the heading "Your Rights Online."

Parent Modded Down?

[JordanL]

Wow... I was just making a joke at wording... damn you WoWers are sensetive.

The REAL question is...

[syberanarchy]

...in 2006, who the fuck is dumb enough to PAY for jerk off material? :p

On topic, Google can't possibly be held responsible for the actions of these sites. That's like the RIAA/MPAA forcing them to remove all links to any warez sites.

Of course, I may just be giving them ideas...

its just research

[cvos]

now we all have the excuse of oogling perfect 10's products while claiming to fight for online freedom and an open internet. Why Google images when you can Oogle them

Re:Critical eliment..

[gonkem]

I'm looking at the Perfect 10 site and I'm not seeing a whole lot of costumes! :P