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Translated and summarized: French site Fuzz.fr shut down by a judge. Site editor fined 2500 Euros. Olivier Martinez sued about 20 web sites for writing about
by ambition 19y ago
Translated and summarized:
French site Fuzz.fr shut down by a judge.
Site editor fined 2500 Euros.
Olivier Martinez sued about 20 web sites for writing about his relationship with Kylie Minogue.
Among them was fuzz.fr. Fuzz.fr is a francophone digg clone, thus, the relevant news story was posted by a user, not by site editors. The judge ruled that the site owners must be considered editors.
The site owner decided to shut down the site rather than try to screen every link posted.
The site owner's legal team generalize this case to imply that all user-generated content in France, thus, Web 2.0 itself, is in danger.