The death of Youtube

[jmood88]

YouTube unveils anti-piracy filters

The filtering tools are designed so the owners of copyrighted video can block their material from appearing on YouTube, which has become a pop culture phenomenon in its 2-year existence. The tools also give the owners of copyrighted video the option to sell ads around their material if they want the clips to remain available on YouTube.

[Skerik]

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YouTube now needs the cooperation of copyright owners for its filtering system to work because the technology requires copyright holders to provide copies of the video they want to protect so YouTube can compare those digital files to material being uploaded to its Web site.

This means that movie and TV studios will have to provide decades of copyright material if they don't want it to appear on YouTube or spend even more time scanning the site for violations.

Yeah, that's not happening. It seems like the best arrangement for both worlds is the one mentioned elsewhere in the article - leave the content available online, but let the content creator embed advertisements in them to generate revenue.

Basically, what they're doing now is a pretty lame gesture by YouTube, but it's their way of reaching the legal safe ground by taking "proactive measures" to remove copyright content from their site. That's really all they need to do to appease the lawyers hounding them, including the $1B lawsuit from Viacom. But it seems like eventually they're going to have to embed some kind of digital signature directly in the content, because I don't foresee the content providers uploading "decades" of content to make sure none of it is posted on the likes of YouTube.

[ODogg]

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Ahh, just like Napster went away, then was replaced by other programs, I wonder who will take up Youtube's place with this BS now...yep, Youtube is not dead but was just informed of a terminal illness, it'll take time but someone will rise up and replace them now..

[bkfount]

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Ahh, just like Napster went away, then was replaced by other programs, I wonder who will take up Youtube's place with this BS now...yep, Youtube is not dead but was just informed of a terminal illness, it'll take time but someone will rise up and replace them now..

youtube has gone down since google bought them. Yeah you can still see the leave britney alone type videos, but I liked watching tv shows on there. It got popular because it was free and had the wild west rules of law initially.

Sadly, some other notable youtube-ish sites like dailymotion also are now starting to weed out copyrighted stuff.

[Blzer]

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youtube has gone down since google bought them. Yeah you can still see the leave britney alone type videos, but I liked watching tv shows on there. It got popular because it was free and had the wild west rules of law initially.

http://www.tv-links.co.uk/

Unfortunately, sometimes those videos are hosted by YouTube or Google Video.

[jmood88]

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youtube has gone down since google bought them. Yeah you can still see the leave britney alone type videos, but I liked watching tv shows on there. It got popular because it was free and had the wild west rules of law initially.

Sadly, some other notable youtube-ish sites like dailymotion also are now starting to weed out copyrighted stuff.

There's a website called alluc.org that's let you watch full tv shows.

[Scottdau]

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I have no problem and I don't blame them for doing this. It is wrong to show something and not have the rights for. Oh well. Got to love the internet.

[CaptainZombie]

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Yeah, that's not happening. It seems like the best arrangement for both worlds is the one mentioned elsewhere in the article - leave the content available online, but let the content creator embed advertisements in them to generate revenue.

Basically, what they're doing now is a pretty lame gesture by YouTube, but it's their way of reaching the legal safe ground by taking "proactive measures" to remove copyright content from their site. That's really all they need to do to appease the lawyers hounding them, including the $1B lawsuit from Viacom. But it seems like eventually they're going to have to embed some kind of digital signature directly in the content, because I don't foresee the content providers uploading "decades" of content to make sure none of it is posted on the likes of YouTube.

If they feel like their losing money, I bet you that they hire some people to take care of this for them. WWE did it with all ebayers, people's personal websites, etc.

[SPTO]

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Yeah, I doubt WWE will provide years of content when they already have 24/7 both as a digital money maker and on their website. As for studios doing the same thing? It'll be a cold day in hell before studios allow that kind of thing. The NFL has cracked down on just about any vintage broadcast footage but a few things have trickled in here and there in the last couple months. I actually saw Terry Bradshaw's last TD pass and several full length classic Steelers games

In the end tho, this is just the beginning of a long and slow death for youtube. I didn't catch on until the very beginning of their troubles but I did see how it was truly a community of like minded people sharing great stuff whether it be copyrighted or otherwise.

Such a shame too.