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Shouldn't Lawyers Sending Out Nastygrams Online Understand The Internet First?
from the it-would-probably-help dept
It's amazing sometimes to see what happens when lawyers who don't seem to understand the internet start freaking out about something online. You would think, by now, people would know to go and ask someone who knows a little better to explain what's going on -- but we still see bizarre cases that never would have gone anywhere if someone had simply spent a tiny bit of time asking how the internet works, and whether or not there's a real issue.. John points us to a situation in Germany, where a blogger received a legal nastygram from the Sozialgericht Bremen, "a court of law for dealing with cases in the area of German social services" because his blog shows up in a Google search for Sozialgericht Bremen. Obviously, it seems silly to think that it would be illegal to mention Sozialgericht Bremen online, and after that, it's hard to see how the blogger in question has any control over where his site appears on a Google search for that term. However, that won't stop some lawyers from assuming that someone must be to blame -- and when someone's to blame, out come the legal nastygrams, even if they have no basis in, say, law.
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Wouldn't it be funny if
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People + Lack of Knowledge + Pride = i.e. Sozialgericht Bremen
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Sozialgericht Bremen
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Very ridiculous still...
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Chronic-what-cles of Narnia?
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Those Damn German Lawyers!
But they'll be really unhappy about what this has done for their Google results (count the blog entries).
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Ahhh... when the arrogant and ignorant collide ;)
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Yes, she's threatening with laws & such, but you need to know the Germans to know that this is kind of a nonaggressive and almost socially acceptable message, and it shouldn't be understood in American hyperlitigious terms... if you ask me.
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