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You could argue that this is the only arrangement in which YouTube can exist; is having the site with overzealous copyright enforcement worse than having no sit
by dangrossman 13y ago
You could argue that this is the only arrangement in which YouTube can exist; is having the site with overzealous copyright enforcement worse than having no site at all?
Google may prevail in court if sued for the millions of instances of infringement it hosts, but it'd still have to become the largest US employer of lawyers to handle and fund the dozens of major lawsuits it'd face every year. Is it profitable enough to do that? Does Google want to dedicate so much of its resources to court battles instead of its core competencies? Even with the DMCA, they still get sued.
- anoncow 13y agoWould YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal? Without the option of counter-claiming, Youtube is a monarchy. I do expect a public company to have some sort of democracy, especially one who claims to follow "Do not be evil".
- dangrossman 13y ago> Would YT get sued by Universal even with DMCA, if YT did not have a special arrangement with Universal? Why not? Viacom sued despite the DMCA defense.
- anoncow 13y agoI concede. You have a point.