Neowin.net

Yes but don't you see it? They are obviously jealous f-ers and they need to be shot!

You are an idiot... and I don't know ho YouTube survives with all it's illegal content.

Mr. Pot, meet Mr. Kettle. Because something may, or may not infringe on someone's copyright, it is not necessarily 'illegal'. IP laws swim in the judiciary waters of the civil courts, not the criminal ones. As far 'illegal' content (child porn, stolen corp secrets, etc) courts in the US have upheld that hosting companies are not necessarily responsible for the information that individual users post on their sites.

The DMCA sets the guidelines for IP and 'illegal' content in the US. If a complaint is legitimate, the Web host may take action to block or terminate access to the content that is being used unlawfully and/or violating IP law. This provides some legal immunity to hosting entities.

Until there is another precedent set or law passed, it is not the legal responsibility of Internet hosting companies to step in and play cop. Morally, IMHO, I feel that they should monitor hosted content (and many, like YouTube do), but I don't think they should have to legally. Now as far as embedded or linked-to content, that is a whole different can o' worms.

The solution is simple, they just need to shut down the internet.

Excellent idea. Now we can finally use all those tubes for something more profitable.

100% agree.

Pretty much. In a public area, you have no right to privacy since it is basically everyone's domain. These people just want money. I'm surprised the court decided in their favor.

Exactly first thing I thought after reading the article, well then they shouldn't have done it on a public beach.

Exactly, don't have sex in public and you won't get filmed. But then it doesn't seem like these two are very bright to begin with.

There ya go. How can you claim damages when you knowingly do it in a public place? When you do anything in public you sort of waive your right to privacy. And even if they did have a case they should be going after the guy who filmed it. YouTube cannot control what its users post; all it can do it respond when they post something inappropriate.

Sorry, no damages, no case. Next time don't do it in public. You can't just sue because you want easy money. And it sure isn't YouTube's fault that your little video is there in the first place.

Close the tubes!

Yes, I find it a bit funny that they have absolutely no problem with an entire beach crowd watching them do their stuff, but if the crowd is on the Internet, it's much worse! This goes for nipslips on the Super Bowl or whatever vs topless beaches too, btw. It's no problem for even minors to see more or less naked bodies in the real world -- legally -- but it's always a problem when it's on TV or the web.

I was thinking they probably planned this myself. It would have been better if they had done it at home. Then their stupid case would actually mean something.

lol its only a search away :p

they didn't film it! they were filmed without knowing... slight difference! but then again, what's so bad about people seeying what u do in a public place anyway... i don't have a problem with that :-)
oh and wondering why the clip hasn't reached newsgroups yet :-/

Last edited by usadream on 05 Jan 2007 - 08:26

"oh and wondering why the clip hasn't reached newsgroups yet"

I just watched some of it on Google Video but closed it out of boredom... :p
I think that's why it hasn't been posted all over the place yet.

That would just be stupid and impractical, first of all you block one video, how do you stop others uploading it? You can't. Secondly if they block YouTube entirely, what about all the other video sharing sites? Proxies? It's a stupid idea and it wont work.

agreed!!