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Originally Posted by DamageX
Embedding = publishing.
Regardless of where the content is located, he's publishing it. The difference between this and what The Pirate Bay are doing is that the latter only publish links to content, which people share from their home computers. Embedding is publishing the actual content for public view.
Would love to hear someone with a law degree opine on this. I know we have a few lawyers frequenting GFY, would love to hear from them.
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exactly, I don't know how people along the way ever thought that embedding something made copyright infringement all ok
if anything, embedding something puts one at far more risk than if they were hosting user submitted content themselves, because they or the scripts they are running willfully publish the content
there was a thread on here recently about setting up youtube scrapers that I alluded to this as being an extremely risky route to take legally, but the OP in that thread pretty much ignored the possibilities I brought up in his zeal to be a wordpress guru
