Comments on: Murdoch the latest media mogul to take on YouTube

News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch follows InterActiveCorp's Barry Diller in questioning the "hypnotic" site's business model.

[Dachi]

YouTube facing tough choices

YouTube (like Napster) was built on the back of copyright infringement.

If it is ruled that YouTube should have to compensate copyright holders revenue made on their content before it is taken down, they may have a problem.

If it is ruled that YouTube is not liable to pay said compensation, any Joe out there with little worth suing for can build a website infringing others copyrights for financial gain.

I think there are people out there waiting in the wings for an answer to that before they decide how to react.

[ddesy]

Not quite like Napster

Napster pretty much depended on copyrighted works to succeed. YouTube, while it does contain many copyrighted works, contains far more original content than Napster ever did. It was not built to allow copyright infringement and does not need to depend on it as Napster did.

Spend some time actually looking around YouTube and you will find plenty of good original content that is not infringing on anyone's copyrights!

[wakeupgrownup]

Big Brother taking over free speech, can we just cut to the chase and let one group of people own everything.

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