As a result, he thinks the ISP business in Ireland is about to explode.

http://www.irlgov.ie/tec/communications/society.htm

Go to Ireland. It's the country which seems to have done most to protect ISPs against serial litigation, and also to avoid the ridiculous restrictions on encryption and extension of investigatory powers that is set to become law in the UK. It also offers tax breaks to high-tech industries.

Ireland: From the Userland DG message by Nick Sweeney:

It's very dangerous to host some data here !

I'm managing a website about Normandy which is hosted in Mountain View for convenient reason. If one my contributors made an false assertion on the websites, publish racism sentences, the french justice could condamn me for hosting this kind of words, even if the author is known.

Karl Dubost:

Karl Dubost said on the Userland DG that "The advocate said on the air, that the next fight will be against the ISP which permits access to this kind of stuff." This reinforces my conclusions. The ISP is being held responsible for content.

So they sue the auction holders, not the auctioneers... which would have probably been percieved immediately as silly, as the auctioneers are not in France. Clearly, the problem is that Yahoo carried this content into France.

``In the United States (these auctions) might not be illegal, but as soon as you cross the French border, it's absolutely illegal,'' said Marc Knobel, a researcher for LICRA.