Do you carry any YouTube videos on your blogs? I do.
Bob Tur is the photojournalist who made the LA Riots world famous. If Bob Tur gets his way, YouTube will soon die.
“Viacom says it’s willing and more than able to spend years in litigation on its dramatic-sounding billion-dollar suit, but the reality is, it doesn’t want to. Viacom’s case is about leverage — about negotiating a little more money every time someone on YouTube watches a clip….”
Will he do it?
Is it … over?
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April 18, 2010 at 4:59 PM
phoenix
youtube is a way to spread news only when it’s news that youtube wants spread… if youtube doesn’t like it, they take it down, as was the case with the WTC7 collapse being reported on EARLY by the BBC. I was personally involved with uploading and reuploading this video to youtube, because they kept removing it. It took several people uploading it multiple times for them to finally give up and let it stay. The rest is history.
August 9, 2007 at 10:40 PM
cksquare
i have no sympathies for google. not that i hate it or anything.
just something that doesnt bother me…. in the scheme of things…. what youtube offers is a way to spread news (visual news) fast. but it also denies the people who owns stuff legitimately to earn/benefit from it
on the other hand, this guy took video of public looting and played on the frustration of one sect of people, and wanted to profit from it.
so.. no sympathies… let them fight it out.
who ever wins, we the rest of the world may be better off !!
August 5, 2007 at 7:21 PM
TodayYesterdayAndTomorrow (TYT)
You can bet the lawyer$ are lovin’ every bit of it!
August 5, 2007 at 5:47 PM
abbydonkrafts
That is sick. They really should be going after the people that are doing the uploading, not the service provider. It would be unfair to all of the people that upload their own content if they shut down the provider. YouTube does what it can to remove copyrighted content, but due to the nature of signing up, people can come right back and upload it again. But, if they go straight to the people doing it, that won’t happen. It also would be more of a deterrent to other people because they’d know they would be personally responsible instead of hiding behind the giant’s back.