With file sharing site Hotfile facing an attempt by film studios to shut it down, Google has argued in an amicus brief that Hotfile should be eligible for the same type of legal protection that allowed the Google-owned YouTube to fend off the famous copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Viacom.
Google’s brief (via TorrentFreak) says the company is not taking a position on what the final outcome of the Hotfile case should be, but states that the movie studios’ interpretation of the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) would significantly weaken the DMCA’s safe harbor protections that have protected many of the Internet’s most popular and vital websites.
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