Google gets legal relief in a case filed by ServersCheck BVBA

A Belgian court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by software company ServersCheck BVBA which has claimed that a Google search feature was helping web users finding cracked versions of their software products.

ServersCheck BVBA had claimed in the lawsuit that Google’s Suggest feature went on to show users how to find out pirated versions of their software applications.

The lawsuit asked the courts to get Google to modify the code of this feature to not offer up piracy-related terms. They had not asked for any financial damages.

The Commercial Court in Leuven, Belgium has now dismissed the lawsuit saying that the search engine company cannot be found liable for finding Web pages that may be involved in illegal activity based on search terms.

Trevor Callaghan, Google’s senior product counsel for Europe said in a statement: ” Google does block some offensive words from generating suggestions, but overall is not planning on modifying Suggest. Google hasn’t received any other complaints from other companies.”

ServersCheck Maarten Van Laere, CEO responded: “We’re facing a big issue with software piracy, and I can’t imagine that Google is pro-software piracy. It doesn’t have to come to court proceedings.”

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