GooTube snubs McCain's call for DMCA favoritism

'File suit - like everybody else' YouTube has rejected John McCain's request for special treatment when his campaign videos are hit with DMCA takedown notices. Earlier this week, the McCain campaign fired a letter at the Google-owned video sharing site, urging it to "commit to a full legal review of all takedown notices on videos posted from accounts controlled by...political candidates and campaigns." But YouTube general counsel Zahavah Levine didn't bite. Yesterday, Levine replied with a letter of his own, telling the McCain campaign that his site doesn't play favorites. "We try to be careful not to favor one category of content on our site over others, and to treat all our users fairly, regardless of whether they are an individual, a large corporation, or a candidate for public office," he writes. In an effort to comply... [read full story]