YouTube Hit with Copyright Lawsuit

[RobbO]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:09pm

"It's the first-ever copyright lawsuit filed against YouTube, and, if successful, it could open the floodgates for similar suits against the site."



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Updated On: 7/20/06 at 03:09 PM

[Bluemoon]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:10pm

The BWW mods must have seen this coming.

[GuyfromGermany]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:10pm

Nooooo! That site had me entertained for many, many lonely evenings!
But I guess it had to happen one day...

[YessicaB]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:11pm

I think we all saw this coming...
oh well it was nice while it lasted.

[DayDreamer]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:14pm

I can't believe it took this long.

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:14pm

It's about damn time.

[JohnBoy2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:17pm

Sad, really.

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:18pm

This truly is a dark day...

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:27pm

BOO...

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:31pm

it was just a matter of time.

now ... where the hell am i going to post my new vids???

[Kringas]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:39pm

If they're not infringing anyone's copyright, you should still be able to post them on youtube.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 3:53pm

YouTube will probably survive as a pay site, like Napster did.

[She]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:00pm

Damn it.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:06pm

Actaully- there is a commericial you can create for Avenue Q and they say to either send it in on YouTube or EveSpot-which I never heard of.


We did all know this was coming...


Qmmercial

[Yawper]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:08pm

actually some media companies have decided to work with Youtube rather than fight them so this case might not be as dire as thought

[soapguy17]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:09pm

Aww, I just discovered this.

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:14pm

Protest! Picket!

Who's starting the petition?!

[She]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:21pm

This reminds me of when Napster was about to go down and the day before everyone was urging people to download as many songs as possible. lol

I must've downloaded over 75 songs in less than 8 hours and that with crappy dial up.

If I knew how and had the energy I'd do the same with youtube with clips that are in "danger".

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:26pm

Most of the stuff that sounds like it's being attacked I don't care for. Who cares about ten year old news anyway?

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:47pm

Ha, She, I remember that! I took over the family computer late into the night- doing "homework"- just so I could download songs as my AOL 56K connection could muster. Ah, those were the days. Then we had to resort to searching for "Bink 183" songs.

I've grown up since then. I just think it's a shame that they're targetting *just* the website, have no intentions of going after the individuals that broke the law and dragged YouTube into it.

[ghostlight2]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:48pm

"Who cares about ten year old news anyway?"

Yeah! Or anybody's rights to their property?

[cturtle]

Posted: 7/20/06 at 8:59pm

i just like to do "re-mixes" ... and while i realize this is using copyrighted material without permission ... i also consider it great advertising for those production companies and their works.

Posted: 7/20/06 at 9:01pm

she, there is a way to download videos to your hard drive.

if you are interested go to http://keepvid.com/

Posted: 7/20/06 at 9:05pm

Ha, She, I remember that! I took over the family computer late into the night- doing "homework"- just so I could download songs as my AOL 56K connection could muster. Ah, those were the days. Then we had to resort to searching for "Bink 183" songs.

Skittles -- yes! Or they'd change around the letters in the artist's name, so you were searching for Leton Ojhn or something like that.

The absolute worst was when a song was almost completely downloaded, and then you received a message saying that the other user terminated the download at 99%.

Regarding YouTube -- yeah, not surprised. I'm sure it's happened with various organizations, but Equity actually demanded them to remove some clips a week ago.

ETA: Chita, you should also probably mention that you'll need an FLV player to play the files. I've referred people to that website before, and generally people don't know how to put two and two together. Updated On: 7/20/06 at 09:05 PM

Posted: 7/20/06 at 9:08pm

Yes. You will need to download the player. I wish I would have bothered looking for this site sooner.