YouTube No Friend of Copyright Violators

ncstockguy writes "YouTube appears to be fully aware of their copyright vulnerability and is now actively moving to head that problem off. They're now taking active steps to aid copyright holders in pursuing litigation against violators." From the article: "Its prompt legal capitulation suggests that YouTube users who post copyrighted material should not expect the company to protect them from media-business lawsuits, said Colton, whose firm wasn't involved in the Paramount subpoena or lawsuit and who learned of them from a MarketWatch reporter. The 'Twin Towers' episode is reminiscent of the way the entertainment industry vanquished the first version of Napster Inc. and other digital-music sites that made it easy to download copyrighted songs over the Internet. Music company lawyers first warned and then sued individual users who downloaded their songs. Now it looks like piracy hunters for the movie studios are using the same technique against YouTube users."

Re:And now they're fucked.

[Anonymous Coward]

Alright, Spazntwich, lets chopper to Sealand and co-create VideoHaven. We'll have that Simpsons clip on the front page, the one where Homer says: "There are no laws here: We can do anything we want!"

Although bandwidth might be a problem...

Re:A major threat?

[aymanh]

Add to this the fact that sound goes out of sync with the Linux Flash plugin, and you are gold :)

Re:A major threat?

[aarku]

Well, you can click the fullscreen button, wait for your movie to reload, then watch it sorta fullscreen, transcoded, and really really fuzzy.

It's a joke. Laugh.

Re:Inaccurate

[Henry V .009]

Youtube was never going to make any money. Its popularity came from copyright violation, and it still lost money hand over fist.

Google Video is just an unpopular Youtube without the copyright violation. Its #1 function is to waste Google's money.

So the only competition that Youtube offered Google was in the money wasting biz. And now Google has cornered it.

You heard it here first, folks!

[Fyz]

YouTube just jumped the shark!

Re:google, destroyer of worlds

[ocelotbob]

Could you let me know next time you're presented with another unworkable idea you want to turn down? I'd kinda like to become rich and famous.

Got torrents?

[seanvaandering]

Now I own all complete seasons on DVD. Got a .torrent?

Re:Inaccurate

[ZombieRoboNinja]

An animated demonstration of the principle, provided quasi-legally via YouTube:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=54LcZbig8fY [youtube.com]

Re:Irony

[nurb432]

You have the wrong guy.. I'm *not* the grammar Nazi, by any stretch of the imagination.. I've been accused of being many things before ( some even true ), but not that.

But if you insist:

nazi should be Nazi :)