Youtube is a very dangerous site. If you are not careful, you can get sucked in and spend way too much time looking at old commercials. On several occasions I have meant to only briefly visit youtube to look at some video someone has emailed me about and suddenly I realize that an hour has magically vaporated. Since this learning 2.0 project started youtube has been having some legal problems and just wednesday was sued by Viacom for a billion dollars. Can youtube get control of its copyright issues with so many anonymous posters? I think probably not and this will be the beginning of the end for youtube, unfortunately. If it wasn't for the amazing news footage clips, the most talked about moment of a hot tv show, or nostalgic commercials (all posted by fans who don't own the material) would anyone stick around to watch lame video diaries all day? I don't think so.
Already several clips I had placed in my favorites folder have been deleted by youtube. The hardest part is that technology is faster than the laws used to govern these things so now that youtube is a hit everyone wants to get paid. It makes sense in the way the music industry put an end to Napster because of all the illegal file sharing, (except instead of music it's the latest slap fight from an episode of the Real World) but it kinda ruins it for everyone else.
1 comment:
hahahah. i love your video. its very funny. mrspacmanlove.
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