Io v. Veoh: Important ruling for sites comprised of 'user-generated content'

This is a good day for user-generated site owners, and it sounds like their willingness to comply with the law is what saved them. I guess that's the difference between them getting off the hook and other sites who just "play dumb" to having tons of illegal content and end up being held responsible for it. Still, with many such sites nowadays, they're just providing search results, not much different than Google...

Just remember: Veoh had the deep pockets necessary to fight this in court and take it all the way to a decision. While that may be the case for larger sites, it's totally different for the small sites. If you can't afford the court costs to defend yourself, you lose as soon as the suit is filed.

Is Io going to appeal? Personally, I don't get excited until the Supreme Court rules. This "victory for user-generated content sites" could easily be overturned.

Take a look at page 16, line 28 in the decision :) Also page 6 line 26.<p>I don't know if judges should really be using wikipedia that way - what if it was vandalized on the day they checked it?