Is Google Liable for a YouTube Video? Is It a Platform?

The difficulty was that the counsel for the plaintiff backtracked from much that was in their brief. He tried to make a much more narrow argument that he thought was more defensible. The concern before the oral arguments was that this would open Google and internet platforms up to all kinds of lawsuits. And I think the reason is that it's so difficult to figure out what it is, where the line is between a platform simply saying, come look at the videos here. That's what people do to sell things, they publicize them.