It was not the first time. NBC Universal has three employees who troll the site every day looking for studio-owned material, and they send more than 1,000 such requests a month to YouTube.
If not, then after they go after the little guys to set precedent, they will go after the big guys and their deep pockets.If they can win some judgements saying these little sites are not protected by Safe Harbor rules, then they have all the leverage in
Google (or whomever) should resist falling for the chimera of traffic stats and millions of videos watched. These stats from Hitwise show that while things are not going as well for Google Video, they are not that bad either if they decided to work alone