YouTube won because the lawsuit was filed based on them not removing the copyrighted material automatically.
But they never got to the "smoking gun" which was documents showing the owners were uploading the
stolen content themselves.
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In a July 19, 2005 email to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, YouTube co founder Steve Chen wrote: ?jawed, please stop putting stolen videos on the site. We?re going to have a tough time defending the fact that we?re not liable for the copyrighted material on the site because we the co-founders is didn?t put it up when one of blatantly stealing content from other sites and trying to get everyone to see it.?
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