Re:They're going to start revenue sharing (Score 1)

What Google, Youtube and other content aggies need to do is have a dropdown box which lists all the major networks ( oh h___, let's include your local broadcast stations based on your login prefs where possible to give a starving programmer a little work eh? ) and require that every vid uploaded be flagged as either;

• 1) personal, copyright retained
• 2) personal, copyright in the gnu, creative commons, or variant
• 3) public domain AFAIK ( that's what it should say ... exactly!!!)
• 4) belonging to one of the above content providers (or other, pls enter the content provider you think this belongs to.

Then, as soon as the content is flagged as such the Aggie would

• a) start pumping ad content from ThoseNicePeople the content providers.
• b) provide a link to the original content (if the CP involved has one)
• c) discount (not give for free) the click through rate.

As usual, corporate atty's are in the way of social interaction and profit. I cannot understand how these people don't get it; They get free hosting from this deal!!! I mean, hasn't anybody slapped their forehead yet and said DOH!! Come on, you get free hosting, just ask for a little break on the click throughs and a nice way to say yes or no when the request to show the video comes in. Wake up Viacom!! America loves your content and wants to play with it. This is your audience getting excited about your content and creating a buzz about it! Take an aspirin and get some advertising out of it! Peace through superior intelligence, Bro'