Playboy won a legal fight to stop a website from posting links to images published without permission on Thursday, a decision which could have far wider consequences across the Internet.

The European Union's top court decided that posting such links infringes copyright when the website doing it is seeking to profit from pictures published without permission.

Sanoma, Playboy's Dutch publisher had sought to get website GeenStijl, which describes itself as one of the most visited news websites in the Netherlands, to remove a web link to photos of a TV celebrity Britt Dekker which were posted illegally.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-playboy-copyright-idUSKCN11E1LR

First it was DCMA and such shit.

Second comes filtering all major search engines.

Next comes all social networks and big sites.

Now it is any site.

In a year or two - if armada of web robots will decide that they do not like some link, or text or anything, they will send takedown notice and you better act fast. Automatic instant wiping out real people accounts on social networks will be in hundreds of thousands.

Btw, most people do not understand why Google, Microsoft and such are so concerned to force a move of all sites to https. It is simple. If your site is using https, you can take down entire site under pretense that you can not technically block individual page or section.