Interesting....seems like universals next "victims" are showing some teeth!

Good for them.

Good to know that large american companies are trying to drive other companies out of america. I guess that is one way to eliminate competition...and jobs.

i think that suing season has started.

I agree with both sides on this one.

I can see the point that the videos are being posted and surfable on the actual pages main site. They should be responsible for the content they allow to be shown on their site. They host the site. They should monintor what gets posted better, and filter out all of the copyrighted material as a rule.

On the flip side of this, the copyrighted material was not intentionally put there by the viral video web host themself. So financial responsibility for the copyright infringement should not be borne on their sholders. I think that a mutual agreement should be made here. Example: It was on our site so we will remove it and incur the cost of tracking down who put it there, but if you want to sue someone for copyright infringement go after them.

This agreement would hold the viral video hosts responsible for their neglegence, but not hold them responsible for a nearly uncontrolable problem. You can't screen everything posted on the site before it goes up. It is just too much. It would be much more economical to wait until the little vampires that have the copyrights find their stuff on the website bring it to their attention. They are going to look for it anyhow.