14 DAY TRIAL // This is the second dismissed lawsuit of the day, after a court has decided to put the case between Limewire and several label companies out of judicial consideration. If the first lawsuit was dismissed because LimeWire didn't manage to prove that the label companies harmed the company, the Supreme Court said the two credit card companies were protected by "the Digital Millenium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act," AP reported today. CCBill LLC and CWIE were both sued by Perfect 10, the owner of an adult magazine, that sustained that the companies provided billing functions and website hosting to other websites which pirated its content, the same source continued.
Perfect 10 sued several companies, such as Google, Amazon, Mastercard and Visa International Service Association, but from the 4 defendants, only two of them are still involved in the dispute, after the judge's ruling.
And this is how we go back to copyright infringement. The only difference would be that the credit card companies are not accused for direct copyright infringement, as they don't have any connection with the content provided for Perfect 10. However, as the AP reports, they are accused for enabling copyright infringement and allowing other websites to use pirated content, publishing it without authorization. I wonder if there's any web hosting technology in the entire world that manages to control the entire amount of content published by its clients...
Getting back to the copyright infringement trouble, it represents a traditional dispute on the web as numerous companies over the world have sued other firms for all kinds of copyright infringements. Certainly, YouTube is the clear leader of this legal trouble, as a lot of copyright holders have accused the Google video sharing technology for publishing videos without authorization. However, YouTube continues to be the leader of the category, with millions of users looking for homemade or professional content, provided by the licensed partners.