The order was for Google to take a couple of links off their index. As I see it, Google needs to push back and push back hard because once the public absorbs the idea that Google doesn’t have the links they want in their index, they will turn to Google’s competitors who don’t get takedown orders from the courts.
Don’t forget, having Google take a link off of their index does nothing to censor or stop the actual infringing content. It’s still there, it just that you can’t reach it via Google. Bing, Yahoo, Ask, et al will still have those links indexed and the infringing website will still be available to everyone.
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