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No excuse for Google here. Even if these were DMCA take-down requests, AFAIK Google can ignore them if they are confident the requests are baseless. They simply
by jkn 14y ago
No excuse for Google here. Even if these were DMCA take-down requests, AFAIK Google can ignore them if they are confident the requests are baseless. They simply lose the safe harbor protection in case the complaint is legitimate.
- pyre 14y agoBut is their loss of Safe Harbor only limited to that video, or does it lose it for the entire site?
- sp332 14y agoThey simply lose the safe harbor protection in case the complaint is legitimate. If this were a DMCA order, why would Google ever be willing to take that risk?
- quanticle 14y agoThe problem is that "safe harbor", as I understand it, is an all-or-nothing proposition. If they ditch the DMCA safe harbor clause for this one particular video, they're opening themselves up to liability for any and every video on YouTube. That is something that Google definitely does not want to consider.