jjoshua
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1 edit | Forcing Google?
Google forced (or pressured) into doing something? We'll see how well that works out. |
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2 edits | The threatened RIAA lawsuits did have an effect on the YouTube purchase by Google. I knew Google wouldn't have purchased YouTube with a ton of litigation hanging over the deal. This was the "other shoe" dropping that was implicit in the deal. Google is now a corporate behemoth with stockholders to answer to and they can't afford to coddle copyright infringers.
And things like this helped drive their decision to cooperate: »www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx···le=35026
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jjoshua
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Scotch Plains, NJ | My point is that the **AAs are finally going to have to deal with a substantially big company and the outcome will likely be more fair and balanced than previous challenges. |
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join:2006-09-02 | And being the source of searches they are it would be a shame of all of a sudden RIAA artists suffered a disappearing act from Google search results listings. |
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Bro, Google doesn't have nothing to worry about to begin with. Wasn't YouTube already taken to court and WON a case about having TV programs on it the day after they aired. They won, and were told they could still allow this to be posted on their site. Now the music video situation is something they are "being nice" about, but as it stands, I don't seem to have any problem watching them here, or at Yahoo, where you can watch them on-demand, free of charge anyway. Google technically is extremely wealthy, and it's not because they "constantly worry about lawsuits", because as we've see in the past, when they want something, they don't give a rats ass what the costs or implications might be. Again, I think this is just their way of shutting up the RIAA for now. Eventually it will re-surface.
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