Bro, this does not exempt you from any potential lawsuit. According to copyright law smart lawyers, just because the clips are not hosted on your server does not mean you are innocent. It is similar to you holding a list of all potential rape victims and then a rapist comes to you to get the addresses. In other words, you could still be held accountable for aiding copyright infringement.

My advice, if you want your site to be popular, be prepared to move hosting servers a lot. Most ISP's do not like to go through a legal hassle, so even if they agree with your practices, or the law is not very clear on the issue, they would rather gladly terminate your hosting to avoid any long-drawn issues.

You may also want to do some research on where to host your site (i.e countries that are not so friendly to copyright holders .

What I can guarantee you for sure is that if your site is hosted in Malaysia, you can expect a letter/email from Astro as soon as your site becomes popular.

Very important - make sure you have backup on a daily basis.

This post has been edited by bajaber: Oct 22 2009, 11:00 AM