Oldak Quill wrote:
It would never come to trial, but it seems that internet copyright is
a very grey area at the moment. P2P technologies have been unfairly blamed (and tried) for some of the uses they are put to. It has become possible to be tried for facilitating copyright violation, rather than committing it. In theory, we could be "facilitating copyright violation", or supporting it, in the courts eyes, by linking to copyvio YouTube videos.
I certainly agree that it would never come to trial, and that it is a very grey area. The case that we reference sought nothing more than a preliminary injunction. There was a real case against a real infringer. If the matter ever came up regarding any of our YouTube video links, I'm sure that we would have plenty of opportunity to react before anyone stsarted a court action. If YouTube itself took down the video, we would just be left with a dead link.
Our actions should be based on something stronger than being merely "possible" or "in theory".
Ec