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A coalition of Japanese television, music and film companies slammed YouTube Thursday, saying the online video sharing service was not doing enough to rid the site of cartoons and other clips that infringe on copyrights.The group also expressed skepticism over an automatic video recognition and purging system being developed by YouTube parent Google Inc., questioning the reliability of the technology and saying it was taking too long.
Reuters via Yahoo News: More parties join Google copyright lawsuit [news.yahoo.com]
Google has said it is abiding by existing law that protect Internet services from being liable for what is on their networks so long as they respond promptly to complaints.
Um, which law are the abiding by exactly?
That argument didn't float for Napster and a bunch of other now defunct file sharing services, and those services were P2P meaning individuals hosted the files, not the service themselves!
Besides, the DMCA safeharbor only protects them in the US and not other countries they do business in that may not have such safeharbor.
has anyone thought maybe google is doing this for linkbait? imagine all of the great links they are getting from this lawsuit and they are only risking $1 billion dollars.
