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Admittedly, there’s a fair amount of money at stake. Thanks to copyright’s irrational statutory damages provisions, even a partial win can mean a windfall for Viacom. But that’s not what this case is about. Instead, it's an effort by Viacom and its friends at the MPAA and the RIAA to get the courts to undermine the safe harbors of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).