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YouTube Was Evil, and Google Knew It

Posted by kdawson on from the those-darn-archives dept.

pcause writes "Silicon Alley Insider has the most damning evidence released in the Viacom/YouTube suit. It seems clear from these snippets that YouTube knew it was pirating content, and did it to grow fast and sell for a lot of money. It also seems clear that Google knew the site contained pirated content and bought it and continued the pirating."

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  1. Re:Piracy? by DarkKnightRadick · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It does? Prove it.

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  2. Re:So... by mandelbr0t · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It irritates me to no end that the open source community will frequently scream bloody murder over a GPL violation, then turn around and say stuff like this "isn't evil."

    Yeah, well too bad. You need to work on your self-righteousness. Piracy is not evil in the face of laws that take away our Free Speech rights. It is definitely unlawful, but that's the nature of moral action when laws dictate amoral or immoral behavior.

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