gibbergibber - 2:33 am on Nov 18, 2006 (gmt 0)

--Why doesn't Universal sue the ISPs? Or the computer makers (that's a better example) that makes the technology available. (This was tried with audio tape, I believe.)--

Because ISPs and computer makers don't make a direct profit from the copyright theft, i.e. they don't make any money from advertising carried alongside the transmission of pirated videos.

Saying YouTube isn't responsible for pirated material it hosts and transmits is like saying NBC woudn't be responsible if it started showing pirated episodes of the Simpsons because a viewer sent them in a tape of the series.

Being able to freely watch pirated material is the reason the vast majority of people visit YouTube, all that guff about sharing home-made video is irrelevant to most of the site's visitors.