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Story: Google to screen YouTube videos for copyright

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Isn't it clever of Google/UTube to create a nice piece of software to protect IP holders rights but disavow any reponsibility for the content of their user-created videos. If anyone saw Panorama on BBC 1 last night, I was disgusted by the blase attitude of the executives interviewed - as if their sites had no role in encouraging and perpetrating the horrific scenes that were posted up on their sites and that's without the racist bile that littered the comments section. I wonder, if those victims who had videos of their brutal attacks could hit UTube/Google and the rest as hard in the pocket as IP holders, I bet UTube/Google would hurry to create some kind of policing software (or indeed if that happened to one of their children).

Ebay can do it guys - so can you - get your act together or lose your market or suffer legislation and don't be naive - you have a responsibility to your audience and society just as any newpaper publisher or television producer has.

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