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Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by pkehah on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:18PM (#9219529)
Civil lawsuits != prosecution.

Different problem than the one that the coward who deleted his posts was talking about. Sadly, we lost context because he hit delete after realizing that he was wrong.

That said, YouTube survived those lawsuits and continues to exist because of laws that the music industry itself lobbied for... they just hadn't considered all of the ramifications terribly deeply.

There are lots of companies that don't have Google's deep pockets that survive because of the DMCA. So while it's true that YouTube was sued, and that Google defended it, it's absolutely NOT true that the only way for a content company to survive is to have Google's access to capital.

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Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by dragonwriter on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:45PM (#9219765)
> Civil lawsuits != prosecution.

Yes, the act of initiating legal action is prosecution, whether the action is civil or criminal. We don't call the people doing that act "the prosecution" in a civil case, but the act itself is still prosecution.

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