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title: "Google Data Portability: Watch what they do, not what they say"
date: 2006-11-17T18:39:26Z
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[Techcrunch ｻ Blog Archive ｻ Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist](http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/15/huh-youtube-sends-techcrunch-a-cease-desist/ "Techcrunch ｻ Blog Archive ｻ Huh? YouTube Sends TechCrunch A Cease & Desist")

Sweet. So I guess Eric was [just making small talk](http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/110806-web-20-google-ceo-take.html?page=1) eh? So much for [freedom to leave](http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/06/28/Freedom-to-Leave).

I guess you could argue Google is just protecting copyright holders, but again, Larry Lessig [has a smackdown](http://lessig.org/blog/archives/003604.shtml). But is it YouTube that is the fake sharer here, or Google? You decide.