14 DAY TRIAL // The video sharing service and peer to peer file transfer platform Veoh was sued by Universal Music, a famous music firm which accused the company of massive copyright infringement. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles is very similar with older ones concerning the popular video sharing platform YouTube, a service which was accused by a huge number of companies of copyright infringement. According to Wired News, Universal Music claims that Veoh "follows in the ignominious footsteps of other recent mass infringers such as Napster, Aimster, Kazaa and Morpheus, engaging in high-tech theft in the name of 'sharing.'"
In case you forgot, Napster was closed a long time ago exactly from the same reason as the platform has been continuously criticized for copyright infringement. Moreover, Veoh is accused of representing "a massive copyright infringer that has built its business on the back of others' intellectual property," as the same source reports.
If you didn't know, Veoh is a video sharing platform similar to YouTube but it also owns a peer-to-peer file transfer application, codename Veohnet, which allows users to download and upload any type of content. Universal Music accused the parent company because its software "enables the 'sharing' and 'downloading' of copies of videos that are stored on the computers of other Veoh members who are part of Veoh's P2P network," Wired News added.
This is another proof that all YouTube-like technologies can have the same fate as the product owned by the super giant Google. I'm sure you know that YouTube is one of the most popular names when it comes to copyright infringements because a lot of companies send it to the judge for this reason. For example, the media company Viacom sued Google for copyright infringement, demanding $1 billion in damages. The case is at least interesting because Viacom first required the removal of 100.000 clips from YouTube and, even if Google agreed, it decided to take it to the judge.