On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been thinking about Youtube and, in particular, hosted clips of > sporting and other news worthy events. > > Never before have we had the ability to capture so many snapshots of > milestones in history from varying perspectives and I'm beginning to > feel that copyright law has overreached its domain even if only > morally and not necessarily in the letter of > the law. > > Youtube and Flickr and other such services seem to function as a > shared societal archive with discrete slices and slivers saved over > time and it makes for a so much richer commentary when you are able to > reference these slivers on demand. > > Every time a video is taken down for copyright infringement, God kills a > kitten. Yesterday, I was checking out a jugalbandi by Pandit Bhimsen Joshi and Pandit Jasraj on YouTube and was thinking exactly the same thing. Interesting thing is that some of the commentators were asking where they can get the CDs of these performances. Venky
