EFF Calls for YouTube Viacom Victims
Viacom’s YouTube takedown was even more indiscriminate than ABS-CBN’s takedown, somehow sweeping videos completely unrelated to Viacom. If your video was one of them, the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to hear from you. As I’ve said before, I don’t care if Viacom wants to fall off the YouTube charts. I do care if they drag […]Click here to continue reading "EFF Calls for YouTube Viacom Victims"...EFF Calls for YouTube Viacom Victims
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Does Youtube really even need Viacom?
Its not just youtube whose traffic is surging. Many of the video content websites have experienced an upswing. It’s interesting to read that Youtube’s early february traffic was greater than the combined traffic of all the network websites.
Youtube clones like http://www.dailymotion.com are also benefiting from the increased attention paid to these type sites. Interestingly there are even youtube-type free porn videos sites have popped up to take advantage of this phenomenon.
We can probably expect the big network websites to offer even more videos to try to compete in the future.
As far as I know, DMCA takedowns require a sworn copyright claim. If so, Viacom has committed multiple counts of perjury.
By the way, so has ABS-CBN.