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Never Mind The Copyright Issues, YouTube Had Better Watch Out For The Politicians
from the yeah,-that-will-help dept
One of the most talked about angles of Google's purchase of YouTube is what will happen in regards to all the copyrighted material on the site. YouTube's headed off some of the concerns by doing deals with record labels and other rightsholders (even giving them equity), while others are still threatening to sue. But the site might have another problem: overzealous politicians that blame it for some people's violent behavior (via Picturephoning.org). Some British politicians somehow think that YouTube and other video sites are "fuelling random acts of violence" -- because, obviously, people wouldn't commit random acts of violence unless they can record them and put the video online. Of course, they've got a track record for this, as it mimics how many people said that cameraphones should be banned because of "happyslapping" -- where morons would use their phones to film each other randomly attacking people. The problem here isn't YouTube, or cameraphones, or whatever. It's the idiots who find it entertaining to beat the crap out of people. Banning this site or that technology won't help, because as the apparent rise in popularity for YouTube for this sort of thing shows, the idiots will simply move along to whatever new thing comes out. It's as if the politicians don't understand that the people committing these acts are the criminals here that need to be stopped, not the likes of YouTube.
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I don't know why.
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Overzealous and beyond
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what a bunch of clowns
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Speaking of idiots....
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right right
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Politicians just don't have a clue about reality (but they know how to get re-elected). This is just another smoke screen that will blow over after Nov7 or whatever.
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Re: I don't know why.
Impeach Bush and lets not pay any interest to these ridiculas individuals. What happened to " a government by the people and FOR the people". I won't let my freedoms be taken away and will leave America behind if I must. Sorry for the rant but we are all puppets being manipulated under Bush's control. Few people want to admit this. We must stop the disease before America is another communist regime. YouTube is an entertainment service, they are not killing people. Our government does enough killing but who's shutting them down.
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The Great Firewall of America?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYGVcQJxoKI
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Re: Re: I don't know why.
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two cents worth
Oh, Congress PLEASE!
My pillar of integrity..
I don’t think any Body (Assemble) should be allowed to dictate regulatory functions when they can’t even regulate themselves. (OK, I concede the fact that they regulate themselves, but they don’t enforce anything unless it has to do with their pay and benefits)
I am tired of hearing “It’s not my fault…it’s because I was mistreated as a child, or I was underprivileged, and {insert your favorite excuses here}.
Personal Responsibility, I demand it of everyone.
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Victims
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The blame game
The truth is the blame rests solely on the individuals committing the crimes (or the parents of the underaged committing them). The types that would put video of their illegal acts up on YouTube would still show video and boast to their friends of what they'd done. YouTube simply allows them to give the authorities a much better chance at finding and prosecuting them.
If politicians were really smart, they'd embrace YouTube and use it to their advantage. But, they're too worried about what people think of them and if they'll get to keep their overpaid jobs to want to upset any of their voters by telling them the truth.
I agree with SK somewhat in that we need an overhaul of our political system. However, we cannot put the blame entirely on the politicians because it is the idiots who vote for them who hold much of the blame. The majority vote for either Democrat or Republican, not on the person who would be best suited to do the job. Why people think we should have either a left wing or right wing government, and not a government who has the values of both sides just boggles my mind.
Everyone is so quick to blame something else for their wrongdoings that great technologies/services/entertainment take the hit just because nobody wants to take responsibility for their own actions. And the sorry thing is, its our own fault as a society.
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Do people even understand that George Bush doesn't rule every country, or that your congressman doesn't have authority over the UK?
The UK isn't the 51st state of the US.
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Wow
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