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Originally posted by FightThisPatent
If I am interpreting your post correctly, I think you are refering to the issue of linking to websites (sponsors) that have the video content?
If this is the case, Google isn't involved..because they are not getting any commissions from the sponsors. Linking to somewhere is not the issue, as I have seen people post about.. the issue is linking to someplace that has video that you get a commission for the sale of some item over there.. this puts you in as a "contributory infringer" if the sponsor had not licensed the patent.
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Google is where it is because of it's reputation of being able to find anything. If they suddenly dumped all of the audio/video links and Yahoo didn't, where do you suppose surfers would go to search? Google might not be getting commissions directly from the sponsors but they sure are benefitting by their inclusion in their search... Some judge tech-illiterate enough would buy that.