sullen - 10:34 am on Oct 1, 2009 (gmt 0)

The crime on the video is not important. The case in question concerns the Italian privacy law, and would presumably apply had the film simply shown the boy walking down the street.

The law may be wrong, but Google must abide by it like everyone else.

Also the employees on trial are the bosses: the ones who controlled how videos were filtered and how many employees were assigned to it. They aren't the emloyees who were doing the actual filtering (as I understand it)

I'll be very interested to see the outcome of this case. There have been similar cases against forums in the UK over our libel laws. All so far have been settled out of court.