http://blog.webgenomeproject.org/privacy-policy-bites-google-in-the-behind/ Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:38:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://blog.webgenomeproject.org/privacy-policy-bites-google-in-the-behind/comment-page-1/#comment-2000 Kelly Thu, 24 Jul 2008 05:12:41 +0000 http://blog.webgenomeproject.org/privacy-policy-bites-google-in-the-behind/#comment-2000 The only reason that Viacom has put forth so far on why YouTube should be exempt from this law is that the infringement in question takes place on a "massive scale". However, there's no exemption in the law for scale, and besides, several of the cases where safe harbor has been successfully invoked involved crime on a very large scale indeed. So it seems likely based on the available precedent that Viacom will not prevail. But maybe, by getting this list, they already have. The only reason that Viacom has put forth so far on why YouTube should be exempt from this law is that the infringement in question takes place on a “massive scale”. However, there’s no exemption in the law for scale, and besides, several of the cases where safe harbor has been successfully invoked involved crime on a very large scale indeed. So it seems likely based on the available precedent that Viacom will not prevail. But maybe, by getting this list, they already have.

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