"Legal experts believe that if the ruling is upheld, it could easily become a firm legal precedent across the European Union, drastically limiting the information that many European search engines are allowed to provide to their users.
"The situation is very dangerous for the whole Internet," said NewsClub founder Christian Kohlschütter. "It's absolutely insane." "

The European courts are unravelling the Internet, mostly through ignorance rather then malice, but who do you fear more: An idiot with a gun, or an evil genius with a gun?

The train wreck between the first amendment and intellectual property that I predicted in 1996 is well under way, if you haven't noticed.