As we know Viacom sues YouTube for copyright infrigement, because some of Viacom’s stuff quasi was stolen. But now we see that Viacom, in its turn and its time (2005 year), found several infringing videos hosted by Ifilm, content for which Viacom don’t have to have pretensions of.
Viacom pulled out more than 150,000 videos, namely, infringing videos, which were on the YouTube. Viacom has been indentifying all such videos.
What is the matter? Viacom just tries to be at the centre of attention. The company really believe that it’s easy to get users on the hook?! Viacom behaves as if a matron who wants to protect children (aka users) from restricted content like pornography or somewhat bad.
Greg Gabriel, a copyright attorney at Kinsella Wietzman Iser Kump & Aldisert.
“It would have some persuasive value with a judge if YouTube says ‘look, they’re ranting and raving about all this infringement occurring on my site and they’re not doing anything about it themselves,’” said Gabriel. “YouTube is testing the limits of the DMCA and Viacom is asking them to do something that the letter of the law does not require. Viacom is really asking the judge to do something extraordinary here.”
