Viacom’s top lawyer: suing P2P users "felt like terrorism"
Michael Fricklas is Viacom’s general counsel, and it’s his job to oversee the company’s legal efforts, including its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube. When people talk about Big Content, they’re talking about people like Fricklas. So it might be surprising to watch him tell a class of Yale law students this month that suing end users for online copyright infringement is “expensive, and it’s painful, and it feels like bullying.” While the recording industry was big on this approach for a while, Fricklas certainly understands the way it came across to the public when some college student went up against “very expensive lawyers and unlimited resources and it felt like terrorism.”
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