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Old 06-23-2010, 07:01 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by WiredGuy View Post
Considering the recent news that Youtube original staff was uploading copyrighted videos to the site, I thought for sure the safe harbour wouldn't apply and Google/Youtube would lose this. I'm rather surprised.
WG
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Originally Posted by xxxjay View Post
I agree with WG. They even admitted it. That judge is an idiot.

are you sure your not misrepesenting "knowledge" with "action"

viacomm did leak emails where one of the founders argued that business was built on copyright infringement, but choose to ignore the response that pointed out the fair use (non infringing ) nature of the upload.


or are you attributing viacomm hidden self upload as something that youtube was doing

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8575666.stm
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