jtara - 1:21 pm on Sep 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

The ruling is about news.google.be. Bottom line is that the newspapers want to sell their content, not have it available via Google.

Now, if only we could get a simlilar result in the US.

Probably won't happen. Unfortunately, news organizations are probably the only ones with enough money/power to take on Google. And in the U.S., Google made a deal with the wire services when they saw the handwriting on the wall. So it's unlikely to go to court via that route.

Google is looking more and more evil every day.

Google (outside of the U.S., and here before the deal) just takes whatever content they want and calls it "Google News". If you or I lift content from the N.Y. Times, you can bet they'd come down hard on us.