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Originally Posted by WarChild
If you think surfers don't upload full scenes to be "cool" you've got no clue at all. Lots of them do. Check out usenet, forums, torents and now tubes.
Now I'm not saying that's where the majority of content is coming from, you're right it's probably MOSTLY the site owners doing it. Never the less, people most certainly do exist that upload for the cool factor.
If "everyone knows" were only a reliable standard to use in court, you might well be able to get tube sites shut down ... Why, however, are they almost without fail all still standing it they're so obviously illegal?
The point I'm trying to make is that the way the law is written right now, most tube sites are not illegal.  |
That's not really true.. it just hasn't gone to court yet. The law is written to protect a site owner from users uploading copyrighted content with out their consent. Sites like tube8 upload much if not most of the content themselves under fake user names. They are knowingly stealing copyrighted content.
The owner of tube8 would have a hell of a hard time proving he didn't know copyrighted content was getting uploaded. In fact I would bet you anything server logs would prove him guilty.