I thought copyright was when you take things straight from the Internet and use them as your own work. In reality, copyright is a good thing. Copyright infringement is when you take things off the Internet that do not belong to you, and use it as your own. You cannot give a friend a CD that you burned some songs onto from iTunes. I also found it surprising that you cannot show a movie outside for all your neighbors or family to watch with you. There are many other rules to copyright infringement that I found very surprising.
In this article I found, YouTube was being sued $1 billion by Viacom. Viacom is a website that lets people watch television and clips of films on it. Users on YouTube were posting videos found on Viacom for people to watch for free. Viacom tried to sue YouTube for this, but the judge was in favor for YouTube, so they did not get in trouble. If you want to read more about it here is a link: Viacom vs. YouTube .
I do believe it was fair to let YouTube go without being sued because there are so many people that post videos on YouTube, it would be hard to find all the people leaking the videos for free. I think the punishment was going to be way to much money to have to pay Viacom. It is breaking the law because on Viacom, people had to pay to watch the videos, while on YouTube, people were watching it for free.
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