Posted by Bill Funk on 12/21/06 15:02

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 00:27:29 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
<rcrowley@xpr7t.net> wrote:

>"Colin B" wrote ...
>> I have just come across a user who has uploaded to Youtube about 130
>> videos during the last 5 days and all of them are from copyrighted
>> DVDs. It just doesn't make sense to me why people are prepared to take
>> such risks with copyrighted material when there are no real benefits
>> to them in doing this.
>
>what makes you think that this person actually has any risk here?

If you have been following the RIAA's (successful) efforts to sue
others for doing essentially the same thing, you'd know what the risks
are.
This is distribution; the venue used doesn't matter. Youtube isn't
liable, the person who posts for distribution is.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

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