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Originally Posted by Dylrob
Doesn't Britian also have cameras practically everywhere? No offense, but your government scares me sometimes.
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None taken. It's our government, not yours.
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MobileRead has a fairly moderate level of users. It's a lot harder for a site like Twitter or Wikipedia to actively monitor all user activity. Especially since the site does not even have to host the copyrighted material itself. Just linking to a completely separate site which happens to have such material is enough to be shut down or blocked under SOPA.
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Surely what matters is a site's response to the posting of such material? If the site has an active policy of encouraging users to report infringing material (as Wiki does - never used Twitter, so I can't comment on that), then I suspect that it's unlikely to fall foul of the law.
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I've seen countless of videos pulled that were clearly used under fair use. The media corporations only follow copyright law when it works in their favor.
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The example posted, though, was film clips and covers of popular songs. Both of those are very likely to be infringing. A film clip COULD be fair use if it's being used for purposes of academic criticism, for example, but that seems pretty unlikely on YouTube.