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No matter, as long as I can still discover Scandinavian metal regularly, this court ruling won't affect me as I am not a fan of the Scorpions or David Hasselhoff.
Rammstein is ok though
:)
[inflammatory comment] So following that logic car manufacturers are responsible for all the car accidents in history; its their users, they should check that the person is able and fit to use their service (car). It just makes me mad. It's just a bad precedent.
As usual: This is a decision by a LG (Landgericht), it will surely go to the next higher court: OLG (Oberlandesgericht). In this special case it is a decision by the "LG Hamburg", famously known in Germany for its useless decisions in 'internet cases' that will be reverted by the next higher court. Nothing to see here, people. Move on. :)
Wow, this precedent covers much more than YouTube. If German courts will hold any such service accountable for what the users post, pretty much all widely used services are susceptible to suing.
If Google wanted to make a big stink out of this, they could decide not to offer YouTube in Germany at all, citing the country's royalty laws as a reason it cannot operate viably there.
A stink? Shut down your business in the 4th biggest international market? Lose millions in revenue? Think those German clone crazy brothers wouldn't release DieTube.de the next day? Lose your dominant market share overnight. Good luck on still being the CEO the next day!
[inflammatory comment] So following that logic car manufacturers are responsible for all the car accidents in history; its their users, they should check that the person is able and fit to use their service (car). It just makes me mad. It's just a bad precedent.
I'm probably in a very small minority here, but given that Google is making money by placing ads next to most YouTube content, then yes, perhaps they are responsible for determining who actually owns the content first.
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A stink? Shut down your business in the 4th biggest international market? Lose millions in revenue? Think those German clone crazy brothers wouldn't release DieTube.de the next day? Lose your dominant market share overnight. Good luck on still being the CEO the next day!
You make it seem a lot easier than it is. Youtube has tons of content, not specifically German, that I wager lots of Germans would like to watch. But your point comes across, all the same. It'd be really nice, if all the big tech companies could band together in favor of internet protection. I'm sure if Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook (just to name a few) would say "we won't operate in any country that filte…
You actually mean a copyrightless internet. That's never actually existed or everyone would still be using KaZaA.
YouTube got greedy, they got slapped. Good for Germany for actually doing this to an American monopoly. Big deal.
YouTube lied for too long about it being able too expensive to filter content. But now suddenly they can do it! And that now coincides almost exactly with when they started to want to justify injecting ads into everyone's videos.
We're still in the scenario where aggregators, Google, YouTube, are making money when the content creators aren't.
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You make it seem a lot easier than it is. Youtube has tons of content, not specifically German, that I wager lots of Germans would like to watch. But your point comes across, all the same. It'd be really nice, if all the big tech companies could band together in favor of internet protection. I'm sure if Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Facebook (just to name a few) would say "we won't operate in any country that filte…
Internet protection? You actually mean a copyrightless internet. That's never actually existed or everyone would still be using KaZaA. YouTube got greedy, they got slapped. Good for Germany for actually doing this to an American monopoly. Big deal. YouTube lied for too long about it being able too expensive to filter content. But now suddenly they can do it! And that now coincides almost exactly with when they starte…