Yahoo! broke French law when it allowed the sale of Nazi memorabilia on one of the Web sites it hosts, according to a Paris judge. The judge ordered the Internet portal to pay some $2,800 in fines and gave it two months to find a way to make the site inaccessible to Internet users in France. Yahoo! officials said the ruling endangered the development of the Internet.
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