The Digital Millennium Copyright Act provides a form of safe harbor for online service providers from copyright infringement claims. The term is fairly broad and goes well beyond ISPs, Google, Yahoo, etc. Almost anyone who has a presence online that includes interactivity with site visitors may well satisfy the definition. This provides the operator with extraordinary protection from one of the most common claims made against Web site operators: copyright infringement. Viacom recently brought a $1 billion copyright infringement action against YouTube for infringing content on their site.”]

