To whom it may concern,
Hi guys, the year is (surprisingly) 2006, the place is (not-quite-so surprisingly) Greece, and the administrator of an RSS aggregating service (blogme.gr) got his ass sued, arrested and jailed for hosting a link to a blog with allegedly offending content.
We don’t know who the offended fellow actually is, but he is probably someone with really big connections. That’s because the standard procedure, even in Greece, consists of a) verifying that a crime may have taken place by actually checking the bloody law b) asking the alleged offender a thing or two verifying that they are a likely offender and c) arresting and/or jailing them if you have valid reasons to assume they are guilty and/or dangerous. As you can see, things here have not quite followed the standard procedure but pretty much its exact opposite. Ergo, somebody with big connections is abusing the law to shut whatever mouths they can.
I have good reasons to suspect that the “person with connections” is an ultra-nationalist televangelist and the offending blog is a satiric blog that has single-handedly managed to make him look like the twerp he actually is, greatly reducing his (major) political and ideological impact on greek society. This places the issue under a whole new prespective, but I suppose for now we must stick with the facts: A blog offends (?) X, that blog cannot be sued because it is hosted in the States, so X sues a completely innocent greek aggregation service just to make a point, and the point is “the [incompetent, prehistoric and corrupt] greek legal system is mine, assholes, so you ‘d better watch out!”.
Read a shitload of posts (mostly in greek, I’m afraid) about the whole issue here
update (31/10/2006): it seems that everything happened four months ago, which raises some interesting questions along the general lines of why the fsck did the admin (Mr. Tsipropoulos) inform the public last Tuesday. Stay tuned.
Antonis Tsipropoulos (Αντώνης Τσιπρόπουλος), the administrator of the Greek blog aggregating service blogme.gr, has been sued, arrested and jailed, because one of the linked RSS feeds on his site had satirical content. Although the service was unrelated in any way other than linking to the allegedly offending blog, the blogme.gr server was shut down and its hard drives were confiscated.

Mr Tsipropoulos posted an explanation for the service's downtime, describing his arrest but naming neither the satirical blog nor the plaintiff. Tsipropoulos later removed the explanation at his lawyers' advice because it might appear to be contemptive to the authorities, because it stated that an aggregating service has nothing to do with the various feeds' content. Although Tsipropoulos gave no clues to the identity of the plaintiff, the only satirical blog known to appear in blogme.gr lampooned televangelist and national mysticist Dimosthenis Liakopoulos. It is suspected that Liakopoulos is the plaintiff. More will be known in the upcoming trial.