Shawn_Steele - 12:53 am on Nov 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

I think the issue was not pictures in a secured area, but rather pictures that were stolen from their members area and re-posted into a spiderable area on another website.

My opinions...

1) Perfect 10 should have gone after the places that stole their images and/or used an image tracking software like digimark etc.

2) If they really did send certified requests to Google with no response, and given this statement:

"Perfect 10 is represented by attorney Russell Frackman, who also represented major record companies in their lawsuits against file-sharing networks for copyright infringement."

It sounds like it could really open up some eyes in the image caching field.

To me it appears that Google is not being sued for caching the images, but rather failing to respond and act accordingly to the DMCA complaints and remove them from their index.