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US judge orders hundreds of sites “de-indexed” from Google, Facebook

After a series of one-sided hearings, luxury goods maker Chanel has won recent court orders against hundreds of websites trafficking in counterfeit luxury goods. A federal judge in Nevada has agreed that Chanel can seize the domain names in question and transfer them all to US-based registrar GoDaddy. The judge also ordered “all Internet search engines” and “all social media websites”—explicitly naming Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Bing, Yahoo, and Google—to “de-index” the domain names and to remove them from any search results.

The case has been a remarkable one. Concerned about counterfeiting, Chanel has filed a joint suit in Nevada against nearly 700 domain names that appear to have nothing in common. When Chanel finds more names, it simply uses the same case and files new requests for more seizures. (A recent November 14 order went after an additional 228 sites; none had a chance to contest the request until after it was approved and the names had been seized.)

Via Hillary Hartley on G+, where she adds, “Why wait for SOPA?”

“This sounds like the kind of case that could make its way to the Supreme Court rather quickly,” thinks the nwk tumblr who doesn’t know much about how things get in front of the Supreme Court.

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    …are you serious? no, really. are you shitting me? the fact that a company can take this kind of complaint to court...

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    I can’t. Like, seriously. What. Words. No words. I am without words. Only rage. Grar.

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    This is ridiculous.

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    I hope they don’t try to seize my Facebook or Twitter, seeing as my name actually IS Chanel… Haha.

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    This is one of those not-so-rare-times where I have no idea what I am reading. Or I fear what I think this is implying.

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