It's summertime and the European Union is feeling its damn self. Days after another complaint with the EU about Google's anticompetitive behavior, German publishers decided they've had enough of Silicon Valley as well.

Google dismissed a recent "leak" about AdSense stealing money from publishers as "complete fiction." But its Kafka-esque tactics sounded familiar enough that one of the publishers it arbitrarily banned just before a big payout has filed a class action lawsuit.