Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN)
Posted May 14, 2007 20:31 UTC (Mon) by
hummassa (subscriber, #307)
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Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN) by NigelK
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Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN)
I'm sorry, but I think you are wrong:
> some of Viacom's behaviour stinks, but I don't think GooTube is
> whiter-than-white here, either. This case really is two pigs fighting
> in the mud
no, GooTube is whiter-than-white alright. why? because they are only the
enablers of a _whole_ _awful_ _lot_ of video-communications. Suing them
because some user put up one of Viacom's films is like suing the phone
company if I connect my answering machine to my CD player and put it to
play Metallica. In the latter case, Metallica should/could sue _me_ for
the unauthorized public performance of their work; in the former, Viacom
should/could sue _the_ _user_ for the unauthorized public performance (or
copy) of their work. But GooTube has *absolutely* *nothing* to do with
it. The work of policing all of GooTube to see if users are not
infringing my copyrights is _my_ work, not GooTube's. Period. Once I see
someone doing something murky, I alert GooTube and they put the offending
video down at once. So, yes, they are whiter than white.
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