In Germany, same situation. There was a lawsuit against google's image search. The highest court (BGH) has decided that not taking technical measures against ha

In Germany, same situation. There was a lawsuit against google's image search. The highest court (BGH) has decided that not taking technical measures against having images indexed counts as an agreement. Therefore, ignoring robots.txt is potentially dangerous under german jurisdiction. http://kuerzer.de/bghthumb http://kuerzer.de/bghthumb