Class action against Viacom? For what? YouTube should have contacted their users with the complaints, the service provider contacts the user with the complaint and the user can dispute it or not.
Viacom and YouTube were in negotiating for YouTube to purchase a license for all Viacom media so users could post things if they wanted. But they couldn't work out the details. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, February 05, 2007 4:01 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Viacom pulls a bone-headed move > > So, is anyone else following this story? That Viacom sent YouTube a > list of > 100,000 "copyright violations", and demanded youTube take them down. > > Which youTube did. > > It turns out a lot of them (about 600 identified and validated so far) > were > totally not Viacom's copyrighted items. > > They just ran a search on words they claim, and sent all the results as > "copyright violations". > > youTube not only removed the videos, but those users who posted more > than X > "violations" had their youTube account canceled, and an email letter > sent > telling them why. > > Already, people are talking about a class action against Viacom for > this. > > Not to mention the ill-will this is going to generate for them, in my > opinion. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:226886 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
