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To: LLCF who wrote (39462)	11/20/2000 6:46:45 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Respond to of 436258

Yahoo Uber Alles? dailynews.yahoo.com Monday November 20 4:58 PM ET Yahoo Shares Fall on French Court Ruling NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares of U.S. Internet giant Yahoo Inc. fell on Monday after a French court ordered the company to bar French users from sites selling Nazi memorabilia. Yahoo shares closed off $2-3/8, or 4.63 percent, at $48-7/8 on the Nasdaq stock market, within shouting distance of their 52-week low of $45-1/16. The stock's 52-week high is $250-1/16. At one point on Monday the company's shares had fallen six percent. ``It casts a bit of a pall and sets an unsettling precedent,'' said John Corcoran, analyst at CIBC World Markets of Monday's ruling. Under the court decision, Yahoo must prevent French users from visiting English-language auction sites where Nazi books, weapons, SS badges and uniforms are offered for sale. The ruling could have major implications for Internet retailers such as Amazon.com (news - web sites) and other online auctioneers. including eBay. Analysts said the decision would be very difficult to enforce because there is no fail-safe way to block access for all users. People who were bent on getting through to certain Web auctions could find different servers and ways of getting there, making it hard for Yahoo to stop French surfers going to its auction sites, they said. ``It would be extremely difficult to figure that out. That's not Yahoo's business. (Its business) is to serve up hundreds and hundreds of Web pages and millions and millions of e-mails,'' Corcoran said. Yahoo has three months to implement the ruling or face fines. Although its French portal does not host auctions of Nazi memorabilia, French Web users can easily click over to Yahoo.com's English-language services, where such auctions are available. Yahoo had fought the case on the grounds that its Yahoo.com services are U.S.-governed and that auctions of Nazi material cannot be barred because of the right to free speech guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution.