Andre Yoskowitz
27 Sep 2007 14:30
The National Legal Policy Center (NLPC), a copyright watch-dog group that conducts spot checks on video sharing sites in search of copyright violation recently conducted an investigation on Google Video and said the results were stunning.
Between September 10th and 18th the group checked Google Video and found over 300 videos featuring copyrighted material including 60 motion pictures released in 2007. These 300 pirated films received over 22 million videos over the past year, said the group.
"While Google faces numerous legal challenges related to the posting of copyrighted content on its video sharing websites, there is a growing chorus who believe that evidence of Google's seemingly indifferent attitude towards internet video piracy has resulted in a legitimization or 'mainstreaming' of video piracy which will have broad and damaging implications for all intellectual property owners," stated the NLPC in a letter to Congress.
The NLPC also added that Google never fulfilled its promise to add filtering technology to Video and YouTube which it announced late last year.
Bringing data figures to the table that they probably cannot back up, the NLPC said that internet piracy costs the film industry $2.3 billion USD per year in lost revenue.
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Dailytech