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By: » Showdown at the YouTube corral | Lawgarithms | ZDNet.com

» Showdown at the YouTube corral | Lawgarithms | ZDNet.com — Tue, 22 May 2007 22:30:23 +0000

[...] Forrester on YouTube [...]

By: Rob Hyndman

Rob Hyndman — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 01:02:20 +0000

Thanks, Fred. Time to call your lawyer, I think – he doesn’t have the Grokster test quite right. Especially after the trial reconsideration.

And of course I have checked YouTube lately – loads of the top videos are infringing (I think the Forrester and IDC guys can be expected to at least get that right) – it varies a lot, but it’s been about 50% of the top viewed on the occasions I’ve checked recently. Not scientific, of course.

By: fred

fred — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:37:15 +0000

i’ve never understood why people pay money for flawed analysis like that.

if you look at the most popular videos on youtube

http://www.youtube.com/browse?s=mp

very few of them come from mainstream media.

and if you read the opinion in the grokster case, the service has to be devoid of “non infringing” uses to be shut down.

you can get better information on the blogs for free than the crap these high priced research shops shovel out.