alt Hacker NewsMaybe calming down won’t help rationality, as evidenced by your reply.
> Not the expectation of the law. The DMCA is clear on what service providers have to do
Their entire point is that Youtube already tried this, and that was found insufficient in court. So I’m sorry but your personally preferred reading of the DMCA means zilch.
> Their entire point is that Youtube already tried this, and that was found insufficient in court. So I’m sorry but your personally preferred reading of the DMCA means zilch.
YES. THANK YOU.
People should get it through their thick skulls that the *successful* appeal by Viacom is what caused this nightmare DMCA enforcement to be shoved down onto regular people. If the appeal had failed, YouTube wouldn't need to be this strict in their enforcement.
Viacom would've continued to appeal to the Supreme Court, but a straight line of failed appeals would have given YouTube much more leeway in how they handle DMCA Takedown requests. HOWEVER, *because* of the *successful* appeal, they HAD to be stricter to keep the law on their side.
All the idealism in the world is USELESS when it comes time to be in the courtroom. YouTube would've been SHUT DOWN if they had continued to be lax in their enforcement, and we would've NEVER had the video creator boom that we did have because YT continued to survive.
Missing the forest for the trees, GP (account42) did.