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Opinions are my own. Competition won't change it. All competitor's will behave the same under the law's incentive. It may be hard to believe, but most of the t
by thanhhaimai 5y ago
Opinions are my own.
Competition won't change it. All competitor's will behave the same under the law's incentive. It may be hard to believe, but most of the tech companies are pretty rational. If the copyright laws favor normal users more, and have stronger punishment for spurious copyright claims, then the tech companies will implement it.
It's like blaming American Football for being too violent. My opinion is that the rule of the game make rational players behave that way, if they want to win. Basketball and Soccer are less violent because the rules are different. I can imagine a world where systems like content ID and spurious copyright claims are much rarer, if we have better copyright laws that encourages a different set of behaviors.
- shadowgovt 5y agoIt's all about incentives, and the football analogy is spot-on. Hockey is another great example: fighting in hockey could be eliminated with a simple "both fighters are ejected" change (but nobody will because the fans love the fights). The laws and policies driving YouTube's ContentID were built when the content owners had YouTube over an existential barrel: had YouTube not come to a solution, they could have sued it into oblivion. The resulting implementation massively over-corrects in that direction. Barring a legal change to de-fang the content owners (or to impose penalties for false copyright claims), nothing changes.
- pomian 5y agoSome fans. Watch women's hockey at the Olympics. Actually all hockey at the Olympics. No fighting. Great hockey!