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This article describes the whole ContentID debacle pretty well: "The Injustice Of The YouTube Content ID Crackdown Reveals Google's Dark Side"
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Between the recent requirement of Google+ that came into play a month or two ago and now all this ContentID craziness that's been going on the past week or so, I have a hypothesis to propose in response: Google is simply tired of Youtube, and are actively doing everything they can now to drive users away from it, so that later when they shut it down completely, citing "declining usage," they won't technically be lying at that point. *dons tin-foil hat*
Angry Joe is one among many who has been hit pretty hard by the ContentID nonsense.
As far as the ContentID thing is concerned, though, this goes far beyond just Youtube. Copyright law, as a whole and in general, is just a complete charlie foxtrot now, has been for many years, and most assuredly will be for many more years to come. And it will likely continue to get worse as more and more technologies, similar to Youtube, continue to pop up, especially as long as rights holders (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) continue behaving like petulant neanderthals about this stuff.
Except in the case of the ContentID here, in many cases, it's not even the rights holders acting this way. Instead, it's Google programming their content-patrolling robots in an attempt to preemptively avoid having to deal with the petulant neanderthals. As long as Google stays proactive, it (sometimes) prevents the broken copyright laws from being dropped on them like a ton of bricks. Instead, it's Google dropping the ContentID banhammer on everyone else, which sucks, and just makes Google look like supreme assholes who have long since abandoned their motto.
This article describes the whole ContentID debacle pretty well: "The Injustice Of The YouTube Content ID Crackdown Reveals Google's Dark Side"
(/EDIT)
Between the recent requirement of Google+ that came into play a month or two ago and now all this ContentID craziness that's been going on the past week or so, I have a hypothesis to propose in response: Google is simply tired of Youtube, and are actively doing everything they can now to drive users away from it, so that later when they shut it down completely, citing "declining usage," they won't technically be lying at that point. *dons tin-foil hat*
Angry Joe is one among many who has been hit pretty hard by the ContentID nonsense.
As far as the ContentID thing is concerned, though, this goes far beyond just Youtube. Copyright law, as a whole and in general, is just a complete charlie foxtrot now, has been for many years, and most assuredly will be for many more years to come. And it will likely continue to get worse as more and more technologies, similar to Youtube, continue to pop up, especially as long as rights holders (RIAA, MPAA, etc.) continue behaving like petulant neanderthals about this stuff.
Except in the case of the ContentID here, in many cases, it's not even the rights holders acting this way. Instead, it's Google programming their content-patrolling robots in an attempt to preemptively avoid having to deal with the petulant neanderthals. As long as Google stays proactive, it (sometimes) prevents the broken copyright laws from being dropped on them like a ton of bricks. Instead, it's Google dropping the ContentID banhammer on everyone else, which sucks, and just makes Google look like supreme assholes who have long since abandoned their motto.
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Date: 2013-12-19 09:06 am (UTC)From:That right there should have been a clue to everyone from day 1.