Posted by J. Clarke on 12/21/06 16:30

On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:02:22 -0700, Bill Funk wrote:

> 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.

However the poster may reside in a jurisdiction in which the court's
reaction to an attempt by RIAA to bring suit is to toss their lawyers into
the local equivalent of the gulag.

Remember, the US is not the world.

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