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Originally Posted by raymor
Where people tend to get overly excited about this stuff, and where they get confused about law in general, is that they forget prosecutors, judges, and others involved with the law are humans and have brains. So if the ruling stands that only means that embedding doesn't AUTOMATICALLY exempt you. A judge can still tell the difference between stolenvideos.com embedding your content from hackers.com versus howto.com embedding a youtube video.
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Why would content hosted on youtube.com servers be different from hosted on hackers.com?
If the content is the same and re-distributed the same way, the law and judges shouldn't distinguish between the two. Because this is about embedding, not placement.