MySpace - a copyright nightmare

So Universal think they can do a King Kanute and 'tell' MySpace to stop being complicit in hosting illegal music video copies? Idiots.

Universal take MySpace to court

Prior to the Google acquisition of YouTube, Universal CEO Doug Morris accused the popular video-sharing site of massive copyright infringement, saying that they owed the label "millions of dollars."

On the morning of the Google-YouTube deal, Universal—along with Sony BMG and CBS—signed a licensing agreement with YouTube. If MySpace were to sign a similar agreement with the label, there is little doubt that the lawsuit would disappear.

If, by signing spurious 'deals' with user upload media sites, the record labels think they are protecting themselves from infringement, they are more idiotic than we already know they are. It's like saying 'I agree that all my school pupils will never bring a radio into school'. It's unpolice-able. Why can't they admit this??