YouTube Down the Tube?
- added May 30, 2007
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- Christof
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The future of online video hangs in the balance when Viacom files a $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube for copyright infringement.
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"Independent studies" claim there''s only 10% Copyright material on YouTube? Rolling on the Floor Laughing. It would be more like 30% surely. YouTube says they are concerned with copyright infringement but that''s just hot air. As you point out, you see the same Copyrighted material reposted time and time again after it has been taken down by YouTube. It can''t be that hard to filter can it?
I''m on YouTube every day. I''ve had 1.6 Million views of my "Wallyworld" Channel. They "permanently suspended" me two weeks ago for "repeated Terms of Use infringement" - meaning after 18 months, 220 videos and 1.6 Million views I''d had 3 videos taken down. One was avatars doing Kama Sutra sex (O.K. the moaning SFX was probably a bit much), the second was the "17 year old Kurdish Girl Stoned to Death in Iraq" (truly gruesome but its now on mainstream media worldwide) and the last, a risque animated "French AIDS campaign".
But what really stuck in my craw is that there is plenty of hard porn on YouTube. You don''t have to go very far to find it. Just try searching a rude word for starters. But trust me - its there. Sometimes its flagged and promptly taken down and other times it stays for months.
I didn''t think an animated AIDS PSA would break Terms of Use but somebody flagged it, YouTube looked at it and took it down. They claimed under Federal Law they had a responsibilty to Permanently Suspend "repeat offenders (I.E. three strikes and you''re out)". But the so-called Permanent Suspension is easily circumvented - all you do is use another email address to create another account. Which I did until they unsuspended me this week.
I''ve since discovered that the very same video they pinged me for has been up on YouTube for a year and has had 71,000 views!
Malcolm Lambe, Paris.-
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- MiserableProductions
- 05/30/07
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YouTube won''t "go the way of Napster." 90% of YouTube is VC2. Napster wasn''t VC2, it was all copyrighted. If Napster was packed with non-professional musicians it would still survive like YouTube will.
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Youtube is very user-run. It''s the users who are putting the material up on Youtube repeatedly.
People like being able to watch something whenever they want rather than at the scheduled time - plus for those of us overseas, youtube is a godsend. I was catching up on the Daily Show and Colbert Report before they yanked it.
What I don''t like is record/movie/TV companies squashing artistic users who make use of copyrighted material to create their own videos. They''re not making any money off of it - they''re just expressing themselves.
I had a video with footage that I shot and edited of the re-enactment of the Battle of Hastings in which I used O Fortuna from the Carmina Burana. I had it up for 6 months before it got yanked along with all other videos using that song (and there were thousands) by request of a record label who owned the rights to that song.
Anyway, to hell with Viacom - they''re trying to stop the future rather than adapt to it.-
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- SamuraiDave
- 05/31/07
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youtube will never be the same
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You TubeipediaAre you shocked that YouTube has a Wikipedia page? No? Can you at least pretend you are? Thanks.-
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- Scott_Bromley
- 07/18/07
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DMCA WikiCareful, clicking this link to the Wikipedia page for the DMCA might be against the law. (Not really. I just wanted to scare you. Did it work?)-
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- Scott_Bromley
- 07/18/07
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Up Yours NBC!I found a copy of Lazy Sunday on YouTube. Looks like I win!
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- Scott_Bromley
- 07/18/07
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I'm crazy for those cupcakes cousin!
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Google Takes Step on Video Copyrightsfrom today's New York Times...
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YouTubeRobot.com today announces YouTube Robot 2.0, a tool that enables you to download video from YouTube.com onto your PC, convert it to various formats to watch it when you are on the road on mobile devices like mobile phone, iPod, iPhone, Pocket PC, PSP, or Zune.
YouTube Robot allows you to search for videos using keywords or browse video by category, author, channel, language, tags, etc. When you find something noteworthy, you can preview the video right in YouTube Robot and then download it onto the hard disk drive. The speed, at which you will be downloading, is very high: up to 5 times faster than other software when you download a single file and up to 4 times faster when you download multiple files at a time.
Manual download is not the only option with YouTube Robot. You may as well schedule the download and conversion tasks to be executed automatically, even when you are not around. Downloading is followed by conversion to the format of your choice and uploading videos to a mobile device (if needed). For example, you can plug in iPod, select the video, go to bed, and when you wake up next morning, your iPod will be ready to play new YouTube videos.
Product page: www.youtuberobot.com
Direct download link: www.youtuberobot.com/download/utuberobot.exe
Company web-site: www.youtuberobot.com
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