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music and video .. in fact any copy written media .. uploaded to sites such as YouTube or MySpace .. only serves to promote the popularity of the creator/s and their works. defending your investment is the only sensible recourse, but ultimately what ever action is taken, it will have very little effect on the hosts .. there is no such thing as bad publicity .. and destroying the forum that is promoting the popularity of these songs, videos or whatever, serves no one .. i guess i'm suggesting that this is news for sheep

Retarded. When are the courts going to rule that you can't sue a service just because people can put copywrited content on it? If that were the case, any file-storage service on the net should be made to close their doors. It's not myspace's fault people upload copywrited stuff. Universal only cares because myspace is a big, fat, popular target.

They are never going to rule that, because it's not true. If Universal has any hopes of winning, then they are probably suing MySpace as contributory infringers, i.e. they know people are doing this and they are just allowing it, and/or possibly even vicariously liable. It's the same thing as if you knew someone was going to commit a murder and you didn't say anything, and they do it--you can always be on the hook if you're knowing someone is breaking the law and you allow it because it's almost the same as you doing it yourself. According to another article I read about this, MySpace won't be allowing it much longer...but, unfortunately for them, it might be a case of "too little, too late." MySpace's best argument would be that they didn't know people were infringing, but I find that hard to believe--especially since they started taking steps to block copyrighted content even before this suit arose. Incidentally, I care less about MySpace allowing copyrighted content than their allowing freakish women show their nakedness and sick men contact young girls. The site is too much "anything goes," and maybe this suit will make them start monitoring more to save their hides.

Let's step back a little bit and take a 'generic' look. Music, art, books, lyrics, songs, pictures, films, are all the results of ones work. No matter how you look at it, illegally sharing, or posting of such work is a violation of the copyright (if there is one). If I had artwork, I use LEGAL PROFESSIONAL marketing tools. One of them, is word-of-mouth. There are many other means of marketing without selling/sharing an illegal copy. I laugh at some of the bands that have their music pirated so much.... why? Well, they won't be around to make music because the little kidos love to copy their music for free and then spend their money on a pair of torn blue jeans, or black nail polish!

It shouldn't be myspace's fault? No, that doesn't fly - In my opinion, the web site, domain and the content is ulitmately the responsibility of the company/individuals that the hold the rights to the domain/web site.