“Basically, UMG wants to pretend that the DMCA requires certain actions that it clearly does not. Every judge so far has told UMG this, but it won’t give up. And, more importantly, it won’t give up even though Veoh is long since dead. Considering that UMG and the rest of the legacy recording business keep complaining that they’re not making any money any more, the fact that they’re choosing to keep suing a company they already killed years ago really says something, doesn’t it?
The truth is that UMG is continuing the lawsuit for one reason: because it’s hoping and praying that some court will magically believe UMG’s made up interpretation of copyright law. If that happens, it will make it much easier for UMG to kill other legit sites that it doesn’t like. It will also allow UMG to pretend that Veoh was a “rogue” site that needed to be killed, rather than a successful legitimate business that was killed via a bogus lawsuit.”