Comments on: Reports – French Broadcaster Sues YouTube for 100 Million

By: YouTube Sued for $13.9 Million for Copyright Infringement

YouTube Sued for $13.9 Million for Copyright Infringement — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:22:58 +0000

[...] course, SPPF is far from the only entity to sue the website. Last year, French Broadcaster TF1 sued YouTube for €100 million. That was on top of the Italian Media Companies half a billion Euro lawsuit. Lawsuits, at one [...]

By: Mord_Sith

Mord_Sith — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

I’m sure Google’s pissed off now that they’ve just picked up ‘Tube and they’re getting sued ’till they’re blue in the face…

By: runbmp

runbmp — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The lawyers are having a field day on the internet… what a horrible year for us…

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Maybe I should make a video somehow get it on youtube and also sue for a fictitious number.

By: FuckRegistration

FuckRegistration — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

As a service provider aren’t they exempt from infractions caused by user submitted comments?

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

The issue is not with the U.S. laws its with laws from other countries. Basically these industries are at an advantage as somewhere the laws are being broken so if you want to shut down a website you just have to sue them from there. Seriously corporations are going to kill the internet unless someone comes along and makes it impossible to censor. People need to start pulling their heads out of the sand and either run for office or elect competent individuals not just the news media’s poster child.

By: FuckRegistration

FuckRegistration — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

By “user submitted comments” I meant Content

By: DrewWilson

DrewWilson — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

@Mountain Rage:

I was thinking of this as well while I wrote the article but then I got to thinking – if that was the case then why hasn’t there been a successful lawsuit against ThePirateBay? To me there’s a similar situation since Hollywood has tried suing the website in other countries but it did them absolutely no good. Meanwhile YouTube is being sued in another country. Unfortunately I’m not familiar with international law differences between Sweden and the US so I really don’t have any idea on the matter. It’s why I referenced TPB in the article in the first place actually – I was hoping someone would be able to explain if there’s a critical difference between the two sites legally speaking.

By: mountain_rage

mountain_rage — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Theres two reason I can think of that would allow Youtube to be sued and not TPB. For Youtube they have a french site which I can only imagine means a server in France or nearby. Where as the PirateBay has its servers only in a few key locations. The other difference is the fact that ThePirateBay only hosts the torrent files while Youtube is hosting the video. Its possible that its simply easier to sue for actual copyright infringement internationally then on the gray area of torrent hosting.

By: Shackles

Shackles — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000

Jesus christ I think Google should team with TPB they’ve been sued till they’ve shit their pants. Auugh why the hell cant they leave YouTube alone?