See your link here
Has YouTube gone over to the dark side?
2 comments- IT TOPICS:Government & Regulation, Networking
Post a potentially copyright-infringing file to YouTube and you could be in trouble with the entertainment police -- YouTube tracks who posts copyrighted material, and has already turned over to Hollywood lawyers the name of a user who uploaded dialog from Paramount's "Twin Towers."
Not long after YouTube turned in the user, Paramount sued him for copyright infringement.
Observers say that YouTube rolled over and played dead far too quickly.
"YouTube seems to have given up too easily," Laurence P. Colton, an intellectual-property lawyer at the firm of Powell & Goldstein LLP told MarketWatch.
This is just one more example of a disconnect between users of sites and site owners. Sites like YouTube manage to portray themselves as some kind of utopian experiment, but in fact, they're anything but that -- they're after big money, and that utopian feel to the site is a mere ploy and a key component of the business plan.
For YouTube, it clearly paid off, considering the Google buyout.
One of the more ironic aspects of this is that Google itself has fought hard not to turn over information to lawyers, a stark contrast to the YouTube action.
Print
Email this
Digg this
