Video sharing under fire

[rpm]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=4717

 

[devnull]

screw them all, file share away people! let the greedy money grabbing corporate bastards rot

 

[nthdimension]

Technology companies like Google should get more vicious. Find ways to take the fight to the music labels, and destroy them. Wipe them out.

With the recording industry seeking fines of $150 000/infringement

They really are no different to local hoods running a protection racket.

 

[Prometheus]

But with tens of thousands of videos being posted each week that's an impossible task. With the recording industry seeking fines of $150 000/infringement, pundits are wondering whether Google's deep pockets may be too much of a temptation.

Google's deep pockets can also give them a hell of a fight. I would like to see the music industry last decades in court only to lose and go bankrupt. Bastards.

 

[Syndyre]

I remember reading somewhere that under the US DMCA law YouTube would be regarded almost as an ISP and would only be in violation of copyright law if they failed to take down copyrighted material when the labels specifically requested it. Sounded from that like they were pretty safe legally.

 

[Prometheus]

I remember reading somewhere that under the US DMCA law YouTube would be regarded almost as an ISP and would only be in violation of copyright law if they failed to take down copyrighted material when the labels specifically requested it. Sounded from that like they were pretty safe legally.

That's the case with all sites where content gets posted. It's more a matter of not being responsible for what is on your sites/computers/pcs if people from outside have access to it. As long as you take reasonable steps to remove illegal content when alerted to it. If they start making exceptions to this rule it would literally mean the end to hosting and the internet so the music industry would be guaranteed to lose and can even be forced to pay for all the legal costs involved.