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YouTube Says UMG Had No 'Right' To Take Down Megaupload Video

Posted by timothy on from the layered-agreements dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Contrary to a previous story, Google played no part in the Megaupload takedown. From Wired: 'YouTube said Friday that Universal Music abused the video-sharing site's piracy filters when it employed them to take down a controversial video of celebrities and pop superstars singing and praising the notorious file-sharing service Megaupload.'"

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  1. Re:Google shouldn't had given them such right by Baloroth · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Exactly. The special access system is designed to fulfill Google's obligations under the DMCA. That makes this a DMCA takedown request under any reasonable definition of the term.

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