Source:Valleywag
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has long maintained that YouTube, the company’s hugely popular video site, would never filter uploads to block copyrighted content from getting added. Instead, it would help copyright owners search for their content on the site through a “Claim Your Content” tool. Now, though, a lawyer for the company has seemingly contradicted Schmidt, according to PCWorld.com. In opening statements defending the company against a $1 billion lawsuit from Viacom, he promised that so-called “fingerprinting” technology would be available by September to block uploads automatically. It’s a dangerous step for Google to take, if true. Once YouTube gets in the business of policing copyright, it could lose the protections Google has argued it enjoys under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Did Google’s lawyer goof — or is Schmidt backing down?
Source:Valleywag
It’s almost — almost, but not quite — enough to make us want to stop picking on him. Jason Calacanis has gotten sick, declared Facebook bankruptcy in the face of 150 pending friend requests, and turned off comments on his blog. He even expresses envy for the invite-only comments system that Nick Denton, his archnemesis and Valleywag emeritus, whipped up for his Gawker Media blogs, Valleywag included. When Calacanis thinks Denton is doing something right, you know he’s really at the end of his rope. Or maybe it’s just the antibiotics talking.
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