Viacom Ignores Promise: Sends Bogus Takedowns To YouTube

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 07/24/2008 - 11:30

You may recall that back before it sued YouTube, Viacom sent the company 100,000 takedown notices , many of which turned out not to violate Viacom's copyrights.

At first, Viacom tried to brush it off as totally innocent collateral damage, but after the EFF filed a lawsuit pointing out that false positives violate the part of the DMCA where each takedown must swear that the sender is the legitimate copyright holder, Viacom not only backed down, but...

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