VE-OH-UH
Veoh was hit hard for removing adult content from their website recently. Now Veoh will most likely be the legal test case for online video sharing.
Adult entertainment company Io Group Inc. last Friday filed a lawsuit against Veoh Networks Inc., an online video-sharing service, in a potential important legal test of Web video companies’ liability for copyright infringement claims.
The complaint, filed in U.S. District Court for California’s Northern District, alleges that Veoh, San Diego, was responsible for copyright infringement by allowing videos owned by Io Group to be accessed through Veoh’s online service without permission. In the complaint, Io Group, a San Francisco company doing business by the name Titan Media, alleges that consumers viewed its copyrighted works over 40,000 times through Veoh’s site between June 1 and June 22.
Watch this space.
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I know this was coming since the day I knoticed Sean Cody, Military Classified and Corbin Fisher video were on the network.
Good ... this serves them right! I hope they get shut down becuase of it.
I hope that other companies take note and this helps stop illegal video use on other sites as well.
In Veoh's TOS they were very clear about not posting copyright or protected material. I know that several times they pulled videos from my computer that I had downloaded into their viewer.
Perhaps they were unrealistic to think that users would stick to the TOS or that Veoh had the staff to monitor everything that was being posted.
StarrFucker, I think that you are being too harsh. Veoh is one of the pioneers trying to bring free speech to the internet, and video. Just because they removed our favorite videos, doesn't mean that we need to wish them to be shut down. It looks like there are reasons that this kind of video does not happen at sites. The bad guys here are the people that are suing them, not Veoh.