Company fined €25,000 for altering Wikipedia

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Submitted by hcs_$reboot on Tuesday July 05, 2011 @11:59AM

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

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