Social networking and user-generated content sites like MySpace and YouTube may be the current darlings of the Internet industry, but publishers and copyright holders always happy to see their content uploaded to those sites—and potentially shared with millions of users—without their permission or any form of compensation. Some of those copyright holders are big companies with deep pockets and expensive lawyers, and they’ve been pressuring these “sharing” Web sites to do something about the situation—or they’ll get the courts involved.
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