YouTube Fires Back At Viacom

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "As we say in the legal profession, 'issue has been joined' in Viacom v. YouTube. In its answer to Viacom's complaint (PDF), filed Friday, YouTube says Viacom's lawsuit is intended to 'challenge... the protections of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") that Congress enacted a decade ago to encourage the development of services like YouTube.' It goes on to say that the suit 'threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic expression.'"

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Re:*BSD is Dying

[nyu2]

Copypasta, yum. Instead of posting this here, why not post it as a separate scoop? It would waste less time, and more people would read it.

Re:I would not be too sure about that.

[Anonymous Coward]

I lol'd at this guy comparing Google's hellspawn king-demon-level Lawyers with some old lady's prison door lawyer.

That about sums it up.

[westbake]

This is bigger than YouTube and that's what Google is talking about when they mention the DMCA safe harbor.

YouTube is just one site but it's already bigger than Viacom will ever be. The world should be filled with sites like YouTube and nicer. I'd like to see YouTube embrace Ogg Theora format and make it easier to download videos. YouTube might not do that but a competitor may. A free internet looks more like that than it looks like NBC or Viacom.