Comments on: Watchdog group eyes YouTube

The National Legal and Policy Center criticizes YouTube's business practices and calls on owner Google to do more to protect copyright holders.
Hollywood's YouTube frustration grows

[inachu]

Waste of time and energy.

Youtube only allows 10 minute video clips.

Putting a full length film on youtube is insane for only those who have nothing better to do than messing with copyright law.

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Abolish Copyright Laws

Copyright laws should be abolished in favor of a flat fee compensation system. The market determines a fixed price for your intellectual property, and after you're paid anybody can do what they want with it. New technologies demand new markets and new ways of doing business. You snooze, you lose.

[Claire Gaeta]

A Turn in the Tide

One of the problems facing all of industry today, not just our own is a question of ethics. The dawn of competition in on-line video production has become an issue as well.
Bearing this in mind, one of YouTube?s top competitors is quickly rising to the occasion.
vidShadow.com was launched on December
The vision and planning for this company went quite differently. Ethics were developed, with the production and development of the corporation built on that foundation. The ratings and quality are excellent and growth is happening much more quickly than anyone anticipated.
The site is still small comparatively, but actively growing at a rapid rate without skipping a beat or compromising the foundation.
Founder and creator Jordan Hudgens had the dream of creating a site that would remain family friendly and safe. This site offers more than the goofy every day video, and more than the violence. It offers a variety of inspirational messages catering to all sects, and cultural diversity which promote tolerance.
A responsibility to the internet community, and a sense that personal responsibility is of the utmost importance make this site different. There will be no unsolicited blanketing. vidShadow?s growth has been through word of mouth. There will be no pirating, and our staff will be selected carefully. What is more, we are currently developing a system that will allow review of all videos prior to posting. We also offer an inappropriate content feature. With the click of a button, any inappropriate content is immediately reported to vidShadow.com. The questionable video is then removed from the site to protect our younger viewers.
This may be a cue for future development, not only in our industry, but a general return to ethical business practice.

[Claire Gaeta]

Additional Info

The launch date for this site was December 22, 2006.