Company Fined €25,000 For Altering Wikipedia

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Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @02:19PM from the now-that's-an-edit-war dept.

hcs_$reboot writes "A French court ordered a company to pay 25,000 Euros to a competitor about which she had removed the name of a Wikipedia entry dedicated to her field. Hi-Media, the defendant, was identified thanks to her IP address found from the Wikipedia page."

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Wikipedia admins beware (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @02:25PM (#36663866)

Now we can sue you for recommending our pages for speedy deletion. Take that!

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Re:Attempted summary (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @03:06PM (#36664352)

I dropped out of this conversation on account of AC being insane. He/she would frequently burst into rants about his/her high school French teacher being insane.

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Re:Horribly Summary (Score:5, Funny)

by smitty97 ( 995791 ) writes: on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @04:07PM (#36665084)

Were they forced to make 5 million payments of 0.005 euros each?

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