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YouTube Wins Against Viacom Again
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "Once again YouTube has defeated Viacom and other members of the content cartel; once again the Court has held that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act actually does mean what it says. YouTube had won the case earlier, at the district court level, but the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, although ruling in YouTube's favor on all of the general principles at stake, felt that there were several factual issues involving some of the videos and remanded to the lower court for a cleanup of those loose ends. Now, the lower court — Judge Louis L. Stanton to be exact — has resolved all of the remaining issues in YouTube's favor, in a 24-page opinion. Among other things Judge Stanton concluded that YouTube had not had knowledge or awareness of any specific infringement, been 'willfully blind' to any specific infringement, induced its users to commit copyright infringement, interacted with its users to a point where it might be said to have participated in their infringements, or manually selected or delivered videos to its syndication partners. Nevertheless, 5 will get you 10 that the content maximalists will appeal once again."
Apparently the cunt just gets off to forcing Slashdot visitors to either back out of the article or hold down the space bar for all eternity until the retarded spam message is finally past. I'm getting sick of it myself, it would be nice if they would add a spam filter that automatically flags all posts containing both the words "luser" and "hosts" that are posted by an AC. I usually go back and don't even consider reading any more comments if I come across one of these--but this time was the exception since I figured it's about time I join in and bitch about this douchebag spammer. Slashdot could really use a "block" feature to allow users to block this asshole without blocking all the "legitimate" Anonymous Cowards out there.
I really don't get these. I can understand the motivation behind stupid racist shit (think giggling 17 year old boys/men in their mom's basements), but I really don't get these. They're not funny or offensive to anyone, and they don't advertise anything.
What's the point, other than extreme OCD and insanity?
A few explanations:
1) Those posts are not from people. They are from buggy bots.
2) Those posts are cleverly encrypted messages sent to/from secret agents (or terrorist or pedophiles or bronies), hiding secrets in plain sights.
3) Those posts are ASCII-encoded mp3s and Slashdot is used as the backend storage for muzofon.com
4) Those posts don't exist, you are hallucinating.
lucm, indeed.
Or quite possibly, these posts are from secret robotic agents who are exchanging ascii-encoded mp3's that when played the notes translate to encypted terrorist plans/naked children in compromising positions/ponies. Or perhaps I am the one that is hallucinating.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.