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I'm reaching the point where that argument no longer holds water for me. So it's impossible to run a video site as large as Youtube without breaking the law or
by ZoFreX 14y ago
I'm reaching the point where that argument no longer holds water for me. So it's impossible to run a video site as large as Youtube without breaking the law or screwing people over? Then don't do it! Would the world really be worse off if instead of Youtube, we had 1,000s of much smaller sites, capable of handling their workload with real actual people?
- sp332 14y agoIs the world really worse off with Youtube the way it is? or even the way it was, without ContentID? I can't say I see the harm in some people uploading crappy copies of some videos and not making a profit on them. Content owners will always overreact even if nothing bad is happening, for example this just happened: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/09/007212/legitimate-ebook-lending-community-closed-after-copyright-complaints http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/08/09/007212/legitimate-ebo...
- ZoFreX 14y ago> Is the world really worse off with Youtube the way it is? With videos of Curiosity being taken down for copyright infringement? With "the little guy" having to wait up to a month for anyone to prove wrongdoing, and in the meantime their video goes offline? I'd say that's pretty bad, yeah.
- sp332 14y agoOh sorry when you asked about screwing people over I thought you meant content owners. Yeah I definitely agree if you meant screwing over site users.