Google cites BayTSP in Viacom case
p2pnet news view | P2P:- After filing a $1-billion copyright-infringement lawsuit against Google’s YouTube, Viacom secretly uploaded content onto the video website for promotional purposes, says IMDb.
Were that not enough, it then asked BayTSP, its “copyright policing service,” to ignore the clips and, “not demand that YouTube remove them, Google claimed in documents filed in federal court in San Jose on Monday,” says the story, going on:
“The assertion was included in Google’s motion that BayTSP produce internal records that, Google says, will refute Viacom’s claim that it cannot be expected to track material posted on YouTube that violates its copyrights.”
Google, “has insisted all along that it isn’t liable for pirated material uploaded by its users but that it routinely removes such material when requested to do so by copyright owners,” says the story.
IMDb – Google Wants Records Of Viacom’s Copyright Cop, October 28, 2008
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October 29th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
This is the same kind of hypocrisy displayed by the recording industry, which uses P2P networks as a free advertising and promotion vehicle, as well as for data-mining and market research — at the same time they are doing everything possible to cripple and/or eradicate P2P.
Viacom, which owns everything from MTV to Neopets, is very much part of that industry.
October 29th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
sayoeacerillfast. oshit