That’s right, Viacom wants a 10 digit sum from Google! They allege that YouTube has over 160,000 clips on their site belonging to Viacom. It seems Viacom is forgetting all about last month when they demanded YouTube take down 100,000 clips, which Google did. So what exactly is it that Google is being held liable for? Google is complying and taking down whatever copyrighted material gets posted. According to the law, that’s all they need to do to stay legal.
Just as ISPs aren’t held liable for letting torrent users download copyrighted material, Google has the same exception. This is the entire premise of how Google is able to scan and save the contents found on the Internet without liability.
Either way, the whole lawsuit is bogus. Had Google not complied last month, Viacom would have a case. But for all we know, the users that uploaded material could have been Viacom’s own employees. There’s no way to know, and this is exactly why the DMCA protects Google from liability.
For those of you wondering, Google is about 10 times bigger than Viacom. (Correction: Google is 5 times bigger than Viacom)
Generally spoken, the practice of men making new laws in excess of the laws of God has again run out of control. There cannot be any laws in excess of the laws of Allah, and the Prophet clearly demands that we must take up arms and restore the will of Allah. Allah Akbar!!!