The YouTube clones will try and weasel out of the 2257 regs.
Their weapon of choice is ignorance - that they have no control over their users. This is also how they will try and avoid the copyright lawsuits - saying their service belong under the DMCA
The problem with this argument is that they are providing a service, which directly benefits from the content. Prosecutors and judges are not dumb people, they can see when someone does something with "intent". Ex. does not put the mechanisms in place, which could control the problem.
Ask why
Kazaa just paid $100 milllion to the recording industry:
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Originally Posted by News.com
Just over a year ago, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that file-sharing companies could be held responsible for illicit content that passed through their sites, subverting a 2003 verdict by a lower court that decentralized downloading networks were legal. It was a decision that doomed Grokster and set a tough precedent for future face-offs between peer-to-peer networks and the recording industry.
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The YouTube clones are not even P2P - they host all of the videos, and have every option to try and control copyright infringements + child pornography. However they know, if they start out as a "restricted service", then they will not be able to get the surfer´s attention.
So the clones are betting that they can keep the law enforcement + civil suits at arms length with the DMCA, while they kill of the competition who are playing by the rules. Or as one of the YouTube clones said "No one have the balls to do this beside us"
