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Google and YouTube argue that they are innocent in the copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom because they are protected under the DMCA Safe Harbor provisions. But Safe Harbor only protects websites that have no knowledge of infringement yet YouTube founders clearly knew of and almost entirely depended on pirated content. One YouTube co-founder even uploaded stolen content himself.
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Update 2/3/2010 – Some have contacted me that the following post is over simplistic, and they raise some very good points. It isn’t the RIAA that is seeking the million dollar fines; they’re usually asking for ~$3500 settlement fees; it is the juries that are issuing these multi-million dollar fines if the case goes to court. Someone else criticized my blog posting that:
“This is way way way oversimplistic. The penalties were, of course, originally set in a world where a copyright violation might be a movie, or a record, or a …
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Princeton Senior Sauhard Sahi (under the supervision of Princeton Professor Ed Felton) conducted a study of 1021 randomly selected files pulled from the trackerless variant of BitTorrent. 10 of the 1021 files were found to be likely non-infringing, which would mean that more than 99% of the files sampled were copyrighted content.
Figure 1 – Types of BitTorrent files sampled by Sauhard Sahi
While 99% of these files sampled were pirated, it doesn’t directly translate to the percentage of BitTorrent network traffic. The network traffic number could simply be computed by weighting …






