YouTube Getting Sued.

[HAVOC]

It's not even about copyrighted clips, movies, images, music, etc....

IT'S ALL ABOUT ADVERTISING DOLLARS.

Viacom knows that since their copyrighted material is available on YOUTUBE, where YOUTUBE / GOOGLE benefits from advertising / marketing dollars, it's money lost out of Viacom's pockets.

Perhaps Viacom should follow in the steps of Hulu, "NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners" and provide internet users a place to view all of their copyrighted media in much higher definition so we wouldn't have to watch crappy quality youtube videos.

Just a thought.

 

[synergy]

It's not even about copyrighted clips, movies, images, music, etc....

IT'S ALL ABOUT ADVERTISING DOLLARS.

Viacom knows that since their copyrighted material is available on YOUTUBE, where YOUTUBE / GOOGLE benefits from advertising / marketing dollars, it's money lost out of Viacom's pockets.

Perhaps Viacom should follow in the steps of Hulu, "NBC Universal, News Corp. and Providence Equity Partners" and provide internet users a place to view all of their copyrighted media in much higher definition so we wouldn't have to watch crappy quality youtube videos.

Just a thought.

+1 to that. It's all about empie building and Viacom totally feels threatened. They're just trying to waste money to prove a point...just like the RIAA going after single moms.

 

[KSoD]

An why the 1 year bump?

Cause we had nothing better to do or talk about today.:freak:

 

[Jorsoft]

Youtube is supposedly losing Google quite a bit of money even with all the extra adverts they have on the site now. But it brings them a lot of customers for their other services and builds their brands up positively so I think it must be worth it.

 

[HAVOC]

Youtube is supposedly losing Google quite a bit of money even with all the extra adverts they have on the site now. But it brings them a lot of customers for their other services and builds their brands up positively so I think it must be worth it.

It's worth it solely for this reason alone. (SO NO ONE ELSE CAN HAVE IT!)

 

[Harper]

The thing that i find stupid is when youtube is getting sued because some one has uploaded a movie trailer or a music video clip to thier website.

Does any of these companies understand the words "FREE ADVERTISING"

I have lost count the number of bands or movies that i have purchased tickets/dvds/mp3s just because I saw the preview on youtube and I liked what I saw.

I can understand it if some one has uploaded a full movie or a section of a movie that has not been intended for distribution. However i do feel that every thing else should be perfectly reasonable to upload.

If viacom, sony and a few other people want to stick there wang in a car door and slam it, let them.

 

[Jorsoft]

^ I'll second that. I've bought quite a few CDs, movies, and even TV seasons that I never would have gotten otherwise. It's definitely free advertising for them. I can understand that they wouldn't want their full length movies posted, obviously, but these companies go too far sometimes.

 

[wafflehammer]

As it was pointed out..this is over a year old. Anyone got news on how this turned out? Or how the lawsuit is progressing?

 

[Wildside]

here's the thing, music, movies, and shows are being uploaded on youtube without permission. There are software that can record it easily. Realplayer has a downloader to download any video shown. See where im getting here?

 

[Oreo]

Makes me angry. They're moaning asif all these music people are poor because of a loss of sales because people get it off YouTube. That's just BS. They're all stinking rich and are greedy to complain.

If i was a top musician worth like $10million and all my music video's were up on youtube i wouldn't give a crap. It's not like if all the video's were removed people would go out and buy the music instead.