My guess is that youtube made getting huge numbers of viewers and uploaders their top priority, and to just try to avoid thinking too much about the copyrighted material, quality of homemade footage, paying creators or advertising issues, until after their main goal to get huge traffic was sorted.
Now that theyve long since reached that critical mass, they start putting emphasis on all these other areas. Id sure love to know just how big they will be in future if they do clean up all the copyrighted stuff. There's no doubt they now have a lot of people creating their own stuff, even if it is mostly talking to webcam stuff, but Id still love to see how much of their traffic relies on all the mainstream media copyrighted stuff that lurks on there. After all the deals they did I cant even tell what of that stuff is allowed to be there now. Mainstream media just loves to talk about other things that are mainstream, quantity not quality, and so its youtubes traffic and the amount htey sold for, along with lazy journalism, that makes them the main focus. It is a shame, blip.tv and others are often mentioned in passing but no detail. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "bordercollieaustralianshepherd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That YouTube is getting the attention when Blip/Mike should be getting > press. Talk about the tail wagging the dog or some other mo-better saying. > > I like the direction I see things are taking. Compensating creators is > overdue and should NOT have been a "On second thought" kind of policy. > That crap about paying now as opposed to earlier ... SPIN. > > The screaming (ASCAP, BMI, MPAA) did on behalf of 'signed artists" and > the obvious mistake of looking/reacting the wrong way when the > consumers became creators.... typical "don't do as I do, do as I say" > in reverse. > > What's good for the goose is good for the gander... > > I sure hope this leads to a greater symbiotic relationship. Which then > leads to a whole new way of advertising supporting entertainment. > > The no spin zone.... > > Blip gets better everyday as does my respect for you (Mike H). Fine > line to walk. Keep up the highwire tightrope negotiations. I see that > you are putting a lot of energy into this. Don't screw your pooch by > putting your face on this if the majority of the community is not in > support. In my opinion (for all that's worth) there are those that do > and those that watch. Thanks for DOING IT for everyone's benefit. >
