That's not entirely true, YT itself is not uploading the clips, the users are. Now I understand it's a fine line and I am not defending the practice of copyrighted clips on YT. But they do remove clips once they have been notified, that is a fact. Now does it stop people from uploading clips? Of course not. That is why they (big media) is fighting so hard for DRM, which is another story for another day. YT may have it's fault but I have to say that they have been extremely proactive in trying to secure content and partner with studios.
My guess is that they money Viacom wanted up front was so outragous the Google balked and now they are suing them. That is why I said it will only get worse. the sums that they are asking for effectly guarentees that companies like YT can not make a profit from advertising, because what they would have to charge in turn for said advertising no one could afford. The whole attitude of the RIAA and these media companies right now is, "OK, we realize that people are going to pirate our stuff so to make up for it, you need to give us X amount of dollars for the privlage of showing our stuff AND Y sum to make up for those nasty pirates". They are forceing these start ups to assume the risk, for their own failing.....it's silly.....but it will happen. And that will be bad for all of us. Look at how much you spend each month on re-occuring bills right now, that are not directly related to your living expenses... phone bill, cell bill, cable bill, a fee for this, a fee for that....think about it..... Heath http://batmangeek7.blogspot.com --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Bill Cammack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's absolutely right. There's no reason that YouTube should have > been able to get away with pirating everything under the sun and > essentially ignoring requests of the original content creators to > remove their materials from their site. It's the exact same >argument > that's been brought up here over and over about sites being able to > aggregate our content sans repercussion. > > > > > >
