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There is a surprisingly large amount of copyrighted content on YouTube and Google Video. If I search for something, and find it, and watch it once, am I really
by goodkarma 18y ago
There is a surprisingly large amount of copyrighted content on YouTube and Google Video.
If I search for something, and find it, and watch it once, am I really the one they should be going after??
After all, Google is the one with the BILLIONS of dollars.. and they are the ones hosting the content to begin with.
Or is this just a case where a big corporation like Viacom is going to try to go after a bunch of nobodys like me because it is easier to scare us with big lawsuits and the threat of owing them hundreds of thousands of dollars.. all because I watched a couple clips of Jon Stewart on YouTube?
- jcl 18y agoI think lawsuits against viewers is purely speculation by TechCrunch. IANAL, but I think pinning a copyright violation on a viewer would be very difficult, because the viewer is in a poor position to know the legality of a given clip -- especially prior to downloading it -- which implies that the uploader, not the downloader, is responsible for any violation. I'd guess this is why to date the RIAA and MPAA have only gone after P2P uploaders and BitTorrent users (where each user is both an uploader and downloader). Just think... if merely clicking on a link were a copyright violation, Rick Astley would be a billionaire. :)
- goodkarma 18y agoI agree that it is a stretch, but so is chasing down folks that may or may not have downloaded one movie from BitTorrent. http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/11/loeb-and-loeb-mpaa-extortion.html http://www.shawnhogan.com/2005/11/loeb-and-loeb-mpaa-extorti... Obviously the RIAA and MPAA etc. have a hard-on for this kind of thing right now. My hunch is that Viacom is trying to acquire as much data as it can to try to do the same thing.