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Old 05-26-2008, 11:21 PM  
WarChild
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Originally Posted by Mutt View Post
of course Google will have the best legal team money can buy as well as Viacom - but a judge or jury of laymen are going to see the absolute mountain of evidence of copyright infringements and wonder why Google didn't do anything pro-active knowing how huge the problem was/is to stop the infringements - proving that YouTubes financial success is due mostly to those infringements will be easy.
I think unfortunately that what you see is what a jury of _your_ peers, content producers, might see. A jury of laymen, however, have become used to their youtube, and don't think about downloading an mp3 or 10000, is really any sort of crime.
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