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And long before Uber, YouTube did it in spectacularly brazen fashion. Back when the site's value was 5% very basic video player, 15% reliable fat pipe' and 80%
by ChainOfFools 3y ago
And long before Uber, YouTube did it in spectacularly brazen fashion. Back when the site's value was 5% very basic video player, 15% reliable fat pipe' and 80% enormous database of complete "we can't be responsible for policing what our users are uploading" copyright infringment. "Let the rights holders sue us today to take their content down, and beg us tomorrow to keep it up."
And it worked, which is how we end up with a hanful of people who would otherwise be competent but unremarkable 9-5 coders at $CORP, are instead through a bit of fortunate timing, in control of fortunes the size of small countries.
- smt88 3y agoYouTube doesn't belong on the list. The process you're describing is fully legal under the DMCA and has been the operating mode for every site that allows user submissions.
- WrongAssumption 3y agoI don't see how that negates what they said. If anything it bolsters it. YouTube went live in 1995, the DMCA wasn't passed into law until 1998.
- nostrademons 3y agoYouTube went live in 2005.
- mrtranscendence 3y agoHaving used the web in 1995 with a 56k modem, I find the idea of a period-appropriate "YouTube" somewhat amusing. I'm not even sure RealPlayer did video that early.
- nostrademons 3y agoRealAudio was released in April 1995. If you listened to RealAudio files (files, because most modems couldn't stream them real-time), the quality was terrible though. I remember the very first MP3 I ever downloaded was a 3:50 song, about 4MB, and took about 2 hours to download. It actually took 2 days of wall-clock time, because my parents kept kicking me off the phone (thank goodness for ZMODEM). And then I found out that my computer (Mac Centris 660AV) was too slow to play it back real-time, so I set about decompressing it. And since it was a 40MB file and I didn't have 40MB space lying around (the whole hard disk was only 230MB), I set about backing up files to ZIP disk until I could. After about a week I finally had my audio file ready, and the experience was magical: near CD quality audio downloaded off the Internet.
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- suzzer99 3y agoTry uploading copyrighted material on youtube now. Their bots will sniff it out in a matter of minutes.
- aziaziazi 3y agoNo it doesn’t, a ton of site that allow user submission works a different way, starting with this very place: hn.