Posted by Colin B on 01/19/07 09:00

"J. Clarke" <Jclarke.usenet@cox.net> wrote in message
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> 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.

This article is very interesting update on the copyright situation:

http://news.com.com/Hollywood+asks+YouTube+Friend+or+foe/2100-1026_3-6150199.html

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