Google Beats Belgian Lawsuit Claiming That Google Linked to Cracks
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A Belgian court dismissed a lawsuit filed by a company that said a feature for Google Inc.’s search engine offers up password-cracking tools and serial numbers to unlock their software.
The lawsuit, filed in May 2006, sought to make Google modify Suggest to not offer up piracy-related terms but did not seek financial damages. On March 1, the Commercial Court in Leuven, Belgium, dismissed the suit, saying Google can’t be found liable for finding Web pages that may be involved in illegal activity based on search terms. The court also rejected an argument the Suggest feature offered a misleading advertisement, since that’s not the intended function of Suggest, said Trevor Callaghan, Google’s senior product counsel for Europe.
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