Reply #25: What makes you think they'll lose?

[Xithras]

Free Republic lost a million bucks to a lawsuit just like this one, and the LAT was just demanding money. These guys routinely try to shut infringing sites down.

If they can prove copyright violation, they'll win. As a test, I just opened the top 10 threads in LBN right now. All 10 would fail a Fair Use test in court. All are actionable copyright violations.

Just because it happens regularly, in sites all across the Internet, doesn't make it legal. If they can prove a violation of their copyright, they'll win.

Free Republic tried the "everyone does it" and "we only excerpt a couple of paragraphs" arguments in its defense against the LAT. The judge ruled, correctly, that neither argument is a defense against a copyright lawsuit. American law provides no such exceptions.