BigDave - 1:21 am on Nov 27, 2004 (gmt 0)

Nope, it doesn't appear that the suit was over caching. Google caches web pages, and they are not suggesting that the pages that google is serving up are cached pages.

They want the images removed from the google image search, but having the thumbnails does not violate the copyright.

The only thing that they can really successfully be suing over is whether Google inappropriately ignored takedown orders. But it appears that they want sites removed, not specific instances of copyright violations in the index.

What it really seems like they want is some publicity, and they certainly got some of that. Considering they sued Visa and Mastercard for

Visa, MasterCard and other financial institutions, alleging they facilitated and have profited from the illegal sale of pirated sex images flooding the Internet and thus should bear responsibility for any related copyright violations. -Reuters

I put less credence in this company's claims than I ever did in the SearchKing suit.