Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> What country is it that has links to copyrighted material being illegal?
> 
>   The USA, among others. See for example
>
http://www.elawfacts.com/2008/10/contributory-copyright-infringment-and-illegal-linking/

Huh. OK.  I'm not sure that linking to something you don't know is 
copyrighted is indeed "contributory infringement". This is more aimed at 
people like The Pirate Bay than people emailing a link to a cool youtube video.

> - Suppose you embed a completely legal youtube video into your website. Then
> some time later the author of that video *changes* it to contain copyrighted
> material (AFAIK that's perfectly possible in youtube), and you never notice.
> Does your embedding become retractively illegal?

I think you could argue that the person who changed the video is the one 
contributing to copyright violation there.

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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