Google reacted to Viacom (VIAB)'s assert that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and YouTube are to blame for gigantic copyright breach of Viacom's pursuit properties by caution that Viacom pressure the lawful exchange of information online. "By looking to make carriers and hosting providers apt for internet communications, Viacom's grievance menace the way hundreds of millions of people legally exchange information, news, entertainment, and political and artistic appearance. Viacom prosecute Google and YouTube in March 2007; argue that about 160,000 illegal Viacom clips have been posted on YouTube and viewed more than 1.5 billion times. It is seeking $1 billion in compensation. Google has said that it fulfills with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by reacting to note notices from patent holders. The DMCA inoculates online service providers from legal responsibility for copyright-infringing actions of their users so long as sure supplies are met.

Google squabble that Congress conclusion to give online service providers with constitutional resistance from copyright claims if they meet sure compulsions has proven to be the right one. Looking at the online world now, there is no query that Congress completed the correct policy pick, Google's filing states. Lawful services like YouTube give the world with gratis and official access to odd libraries of information that would not be obtainable without the DMCA -- information created by users who have all right to share it. YouTube accomplishes Congress dream for the DMCA. YouTube also fulfills its end of the DMCA bargain, and certainly goes far away from its legal duty in supporting content owners to defend their works.

All together Google cites amid its defenses the policy of tainted hands, a legal doctrine that contradict a plaintiff's correct to relief based on immoral behavior or actions done in bad faith. Google is thinking to demonstrate that Viacom either can't show ownership of assured content or that Viacom abortive to meet its obligations beneath the DMCA because of stoppage to follow the DMCA notice necessities. Google in 2007 won an important copyright triumph against Perfect 10, and mature magazine that sued Google in 2004 for giving out thumbnails of its images, in part since of the insufficiency of many of the takedown notices it received.