YouTube won't get shut down.

This woman got it wrong, and I think you might have understood wrong too.

The act will only ban websites that are 'dedicated to infringing copyright'.

YouTube has tools that copyright owners can use to remove the copyrighted material, and they also ban a users account after 3 uploads of copyrighted material.

This said, it won't shut down YouTube. It will mean that the US will simply block it, and like has been done in other countries, you can use a proxy to access it.

Also, if YouTube was to be shut down in the US, they'd move to somewhere in Europe and make money for people there.

YouTube isn't getting taken down...no problems here.

/AC

At the moment no it isn't... give to much power to government over the internet, and eventually it will be shutdown. Any bill/law involving the internet and government involvement should be quickly denied.

Yeah, to the US government.

All the US government can do is stop the business operating within the US.

YouTube can easily switch and register their business in a different country, run perfectly fine and still make lots of money.

/AC

This looks more like something that will effect torrent sites, not the 3rd largest website in the world.

This looks more like something that will effect torrent sites, not the 3rd largest website in the world.

They can't do shit for torrent sites. Torrent sites doesn't provide copyrighted material, it only links people to it, just like Google.

Take for example thepiratebay.org, they have received tons of e-mails from big corps, and 0 torrents have been removed, and 0 torrents will ever be removed.

thepiratebay.org/legal

Also, this is just a big LOL. Youtube can run their business in a different country and everything fine.