Lawyers looking for guidance on copyright infringement liability in the digital age are rightfully mesmerized by Viacom’s $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube and the parallel class action against the same video-sharing defendant in the Southern District of New York. But they should also pay attention to a little pornography case in California.

The YouTube cases are entering their yawn-inducing discovery phase. But a case being heard in U.S. district court in San Jose involving an adult erotica producer and a different user-generated video-sharing Web site has quietly and quickly moved to the front of the litigation line.

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