YouTube antipiracy software policy draws fire

Technology designed to help identify pirated videos being offered only to companies with YouTube distribution deals.

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[AdemoS]

Pointless

As soon as Google finds a way to implement this correctly for YouTube, everyone will just go to OTHER site with their video uploads that everyone wants....Viacom should spend its money on better programing >_>

[guilhermepfgsantos]

Moving Owners

Hello AdemoS,

I'm not a Viacom customer, so I wouldn't know about their software. But I don't think that "everyone" would just go to another site with their video uploads, for two reasons:

1) Before YouTube, video uploading was limited to those FTP servers with pirated content or to P2P networks. YouTube really did change the way things work.
2) Truth is other websites simply don't have what it takes. First, users (not uploaders) go to "youtube.com" and type in what they're looking for in the search box. If a website isn't big enough, it probably won't have anything matching to most queries from users. Second, resources taken from such websites are tremendous, and other smaller video sharing websites have survived so far only because they are... smaller. If they had the same amount of videos and visitors YouTube has, they'd be long gone, IMHO.


Guilherme P. Santos

[guilhermepfgsantos]

Bad YouTube

While YouTube was initially providing everyone with an excellent means for sharing one's own content, it has now become a means for users to violate copyright laws on proprietary material.

While I do not think that YouTube should be obliged to develop a screening software and "give it away", as mentioned in the article, I do think that they should promptly respond to content owners' requests for removal of copyrighted content, at least by rendering the videos temporarily unaccessible while content ownership is verified.

They should also add a notice to users who are uploading content that they will cooperate with content owners in the enforcement of copyright laws by providing them with their personal identifiable information, when content ownership is proved.

Just my opinion.



Guilherme P. Santos

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RE

"While I do not think that YouTube should be obliged to develop a screening software and "give it away", as mentioned in the article, I do think that they should promptly respond to content owners' requests for removal of copyrighted content, at least by rendering the videos temporarily unaccessible while content ownership is verified."

Yeah that's what the DMCA requires for them to do in order avoid liability. They have remove the content first and ask questions later, which has been abused many times by unscrupulous individuals and companies. That's what Youtube did with Viacom's list of 100,000 videos. People who are wrongly accused, as several were, are left to file counter notices. I want Viacom punished for those 70 people that were falsely accused and had their accounts removed. If I had my way they'd loss the copyright they wrongly claimed was infringed and be subject to fines.
Cause protection of their IP can't come at the expense of other peoples.

[garrywdm]

Bad Apple

What the hell has apple got to do with this youtube story! we know cnet is apples love child, but for god's sake spare us the spam will ya? geez You get paid by apple for this apple spam do you? Youtube don't even use Qtime!! save your apple crap for Myspace stories.

[YouHaveLost]

Liquidate old media

No one is going to watch the junk on television or cable, so let them just expire of old age. Entertainment is really boring.

[steer99]

Old media is the lifeblood of YouTube

Then, why are people posting millions of "old media" TV shows and movies to YouTube? If it is so boring, YouTube should automatically and voluntarily filter out all of the "old media" TV shows and movies to clear YouTube of unwanted clutter and chaff.