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His use of others copyrighted content falls under fair use since he's doing reviews. It's YouTube and mega corporations fucking over and taking country the laws

His use of others copyrighted content falls under fair use since he's doing reviews. It's YouTube and mega corporations fucking over and taking country the laws. Fair use does not mandate the original copyright owner be paid in anyway.

jldugger 7y ago
> It's YouTube and mega corporations fucking over and taking country the laws. But it's precisely because YouTube is a megacorp attached to another megacorp that Jim can even upload videos without paying for distribution.
- EpicEng 7y ago
  Sure, and Time Warner is currently the only (practical) reason I can access the internet, though I can imagine a better way.
- jessaustin 7y ago
  Is this relevant? The bastards are constantly changing the terms of our interactions with them, while banking billions and destroying the fabric of human life. They can't also complain that we're not "honoring the spirit" of those terms.
  - MichaelEstes 7y ago
    Video hosting is expensive, like really expensive. I started a site (scrim.tv) to try and disrupt YouTube for the reasons that are often expressed in posts like these and I'm pretty convinced at this point that YouTube basically breaks even in terms of profit.
    - derivagral 7y ago
      Youtube isn't broken out from Google in their quarterlies/annuals, so outsiders can't easily know. I think the common belief is that YouTube the video service operates at some amount of a loss, supported by other parts of Google. This is justified (by Google the business) on the basis of market share, free video test data, ads, etc. This does make it particularly difficult to compete with in isolation, of course...
      - throwaway2048 7y ago
        Every analysis I have ever seen that says that Youtube is losing money relies on paying commercial T1 provider rates for internet traffic, considering that Google is peered directly with pretty much every single ISP on earth, this titanicly overestimates costs.
    - Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
      If you solve a technology problem and ignore the legal one and it hasn't resulted in a profitable enterprise then capitalism should do its job.
- stale2002 7y ago
  Fair use is fair use. It is the law. YouTube and these other companies should follow the law. And I support strategies, such as this one, that forces these companies to follow the law.

jldugger 7y ago

> It's YouTube and mega corporations fucking over and taking country the laws. But it's precisely because YouTube is a megacorp attached to another megacorp that Jim can even upload videos without paying for distribution.

EpicEng 7y ago
Sure, and Time Warner is currently the only (practical) reason I can access the internet, though I can imagine a better way.
jessaustin 7y ago
Is this relevant? The bastards are constantly changing the terms of our interactions with them, while banking billions and destroying the fabric of human life. They can't also complain that we're not "honoring the spirit" of those terms.
- MichaelEstes 7y ago
  Video hosting is expensive, like really expensive. I started a site (scrim.tv) to try and disrupt YouTube for the reasons that are often expressed in posts like these and I'm pretty convinced at this point that YouTube basically breaks even in terms of profit.
  - derivagral 7y ago
    Youtube isn't broken out from Google in their quarterlies/annuals, so outsiders can't easily know. I think the common belief is that YouTube the video service operates at some amount of a loss, supported by other parts of Google. This is justified (by Google the business) on the basis of market share, free video test data, ads, etc. This does make it particularly difficult to compete with in isolation, of course...
    - throwaway2048 7y ago
      Every analysis I have ever seen that says that Youtube is losing money relies on paying commercial T1 provider rates for internet traffic, considering that Google is peered directly with pretty much every single ISP on earth, this titanicly overestimates costs.
  - Ill_ban_myself 7y ago
    If you solve a technology problem and ignore the legal one and it hasn't resulted in a profitable enterprise then capitalism should do its job.
stale2002 7y ago
Fair use is fair use. It is the law. YouTube and these other companies should follow the law. And I support strategies, such as this one, that forces these companies to follow the law.