Belgian newspapers: Google blocking us on searches

The Associated Press tells the story that you should be carefull to what you wish for. Some time ago Belgian publishers of French and German speaking newspapers won a lawsuit against Google about the indexing of their news on Google News. The court order states that Google should remove all links to articles and images of foresaid newspapers from all their sites and Google complied with that. They did this that well that when you search on Google you will not find any link to this newspapers anymore. Of course the Belgian cry foul but the court order is quite clear in it's objective it states all sites and cache of Google. It's quite silly after all the publishers could have had it their way by simply using the right rules in their robot.txt file without any court order now they have nothing.