Will YouTube Survive?
Protected by the Copyright law, Viacom (which owns VH1, MTV, Nickelodeon and Paramount Pictures), has asked YouTube to removed 100,000+ videos from the YouTube website.
I feel that this was a problem waiting to happen. Similar to the idea of sharing mp3 files on P2P (Peer-to-Peer) programs, YouTube has provided us with a convenient site to access millions of videos uploaded by users. It was not long until people went beyond viewing the videos online to downloading the videos.
Users who put up full versions of music videos or shows on YouTube for sharing were enabling others to download them while YouTube was providing these users with the medium to do so. Thus, Universal Music Group once stated that YouTube is a "hub for pirated music videos."
Source: USAtoday.com, "Viacom asks YouTube to remove over 100,000 unauthorized video clips."
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-02-viacom-youtube_x.htm
I feel that this was a problem waiting to happen. Similar to the idea of sharing mp3 files on P2P (Peer-to-Peer) programs, YouTube has provided us with a convenient site to access millions of videos uploaded by users. It was not long until people went beyond viewing the videos online to downloading the videos.
Users who put up full versions of music videos or shows on YouTube for sharing were enabling others to download them while YouTube was providing these users with the medium to do so. Thus, Universal Music Group once stated that YouTube is a "hub for pirated music videos."
Source: USAtoday.com, "Viacom asks YouTube to remove over 100,000 unauthorized video clips."
URL: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2007-02-02-viacom-youtube_x.htm
posted by Amanda at 2/06/2007 10:46:00 PM
1 Comments:
As discussed today, Youtube thrived significantly due to the illegal uploads. I guess these orders/suits are inevitable, but well, we can always play the number game with the company what. Force Youtube to take 100 000+ vids down we whack 300 000+ vids back online lor haha!
As for the issue of downloading Youtube videos, I believe that the technology/software for downloading FLV files that are not explicitly available by direct download is a fairly new thing. Youtube just might change their codes or something to counter this. Or they can incorporate Creative Commons, just like Flickr did. So if it's a truly home video (no anime+linkin park) uploaders can set the degree of sharibility (heh) as they wish, and if it's technically illegal videos, they can lock all options. This doesn't solve the issue of copyright but it does put the onus and responsibility on the uploaders, and it's high time Youtube did that. And it'll also buy them time to cook up more ideas to get past the companies. Or something.
Good luck Youtube. Don't die on us.
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