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> The website can continue to play the role which people have come to love it for, without having to change much, and the employees will be reasonably and stabl
by the_common_man 9y ago
> The website can continue to play the role which people have come to love it for, without having to change much, and the employees will be reasonably and stably compensated for working on the website, indefinitely.
The issue is that such websites come to be abused and people upload copyrighted material (like youtube). Then the record company sues and the website cannot stay alive any longer.
- Myrmornis 9y agoShouldn't we be able to come up with technical solutions to that problem? For example, I know there are various sorts of "fingerprinting" technologies developed for identifying music fragments -- perhaps it would be possible to automatically identify copyrighted material using these sorts of technologies? Presumably Google does this already for YouTube, so someone make the technology available to indy websites providing upload functionality?
- the_common_man 9y ago> Shouldn't we be able to come up with technical solutions to that problem? The issue is that the companies do not have the originals to fingerprint since they are held hostage by media companies... :/ Maybe there is a way to fingerprint using pirated music or youtube audio? As for youtube, it was filled with pirated content and was getting sued to oblivion until Google saved them.
- Myrmornis 9y agoIn a perfect world I guess the media companies would work with technology companies and distribute some sort of fingerprint database such that if smaller fish obey the fingerprint database then they can be fairly sure of not being sued. One might even naively think that it would be in the interests of the large media companies to distribute such a thing because it would help avoid piracy.