What should I do about YouTube?

Re:What should I do about YouTube? by icebraining on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:04PM (#8937255)

Viacom has plenty of money, and even they lost. Twice, in fact.

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by vitd on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:32PM (#8937417)

Didn't they lose partly because it was discovered that they were the ones uploading the "infringing videos"?

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by icebraining on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:34PM (#8937427)

As far as I know, that wasn't part of the rulings, no.

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by DrJosiah on Friday January 23, 2015 @06:48PM (#8938110)

They did some of the uploading, yes. But I don't recall if that was part of the reason why Viacom lost.

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by Animats on Saturday January 24, 2015 @03:59AM (#8939195)

Wikipedia: "Viacom did not seek damages for any actions after Google put its Content ID filtering system in place in early 2008." Google and Viacom ultimately settled. So the issue of whether Google can tie Content ID to giving them rights to content hasn't been litigated yet.

Meanwhile, Facebook is getting serious about taking on YouTube. Maybe they'll offer a better deal.

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by bsder on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:11PM (#8937297)

Viacom weren't exactly the most sympathetic of defendants.

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by icebraining on Friday January 23, 2015 @04:27PM (#8937387)

Or maybe they simply didn't have a case. Like it or not, the safe harbor clause exists.

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Re:What should I do about YouTube? by metaphorm on Friday January 23, 2015 @05:14PM (#8937668)

plaintiff. they were the plaintiff in that case.

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