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April 01, 2008

We dont like Olivier Martinez - Black Thursday for Bloggers

A Paris court ruled on Thursday that user-generated website Fuzz had violated French actor Olivier Martinez privacy by hosting a link to a report about him. The court ruled that fuzz.fr made an "editorial" decision to link to a story on a gossip news site about French actor Olivier Martinez and his relationship with singer Kylie Minogue - and was therefore responsible for its content. For your information, Fuzz.fr is a Digg-like user-generated news portal and has been closed since then. Its founder, top blogger Eric Dupin of Presse Citron has been charged. The French "blogosphere" reacted massively against the decision as you can see in this video (a nice snowball is on its way). I also feel this decision is absurd and this is a real threat against web 2.0 entrepreneurship and open communication by the masses through blogging. J´aime pas Olivier Martinez.

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