Teenage boys all over the world are breathing a sigh of relief today after Google won a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by Perfect Ten. The lawsuit was taking Google to task over naughty images from their site being displayed in response to image searches.

Perfect Ten were apparently seeking to protect the images because they feared they would undermine their attempts to sell self same nudie pics to people using mobile phones.

Now, as I’ve mentioned in a previous post, it would be a very simple task for Perfect Ten to add a robots.txt command preventing content being indexed from their site.

However, it seems that Perfect Ten were also contending that Google were responsible for results being returned from other websites using Perfect Ten’s images without permission.

How exactly did numpties expect Google to police that one? I know they’re good technically, but how could they possibly comply with any court ruling ordering them to stop showing these images? The only way I can think of is shutting down the service altogether, which I assume would have been the possible result of a successful case.

This would no doubt result in several hundred thousand teenagers reporting drastically improved eyesight

More Information at BBC News.