I think this is great. I think I would still follow this up with a quick standup, but it forces everyone to show up prepared. Can you put up some pricing info or define "small teams"? Is this working? or is this an experiment?
This is an info-graphic provided by some committed German guy. It shows the daily views of the video before and after the video-rights were sold to the swiss company. Maybe you guys notice something :)
There's no equivalent in class action suits in germany. And then, the company claiming the copyright violation is a swiss company, so to counter-sue and receive a compensation for your costs and fees, you'd have to sue them in switzerland under swiss law. The claimed amount is low enough that it's way less costly to just pay up and leave it at that.
For the general good it would be better if everybody countersued. However, what I can see coming in this case that the matter may proceed to become a criminal case against "The Archive" which then would be a different story. There's still hope.
Some people are counter-sueing. But it's risky (because not every judge understands the technical details, e.g. one court obviously mixed up streaming with ordinary file-sharing) and expensive. And last but not least it's embarrassing for many people because it's porn.
YMail also lets you sign in with GMail. Obv, we're all aware of the Mayer connection, but it's still a curious move. What's Yahoo's play here? "Users." Okay, but what's the play? Cast aside all notions of vanity, and keep your eye on what you really want? (To train eyes on their content portal?) (Can it really be the case that Y.com is last man standing in the portal wars? Huh!)