TechCrunch gets Cease & Desist from YouTube

After the popular startup review blog TechCrunch posted a bunch of tools for downloading and putting YouTube videos on your iPod yesterday, blogger Michael Arrington got a surprise cease and desist letter. Given that dozens of other sites allow similar functionality, I'd guess that this is a case of overzealous lawyers getting ahead of client wishes. TechCunch is a big site for business people and lawyers so no surprise that it gets targeted while more technically oriented sites get overlooked like, say, YouTubeX. It'd actually be easier to make a case against YouTubeX given its domain name similarity.

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TechCrunch gets Cease & Desist from YouTube