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YouTube Puts On A Piracy Band-Aid
from the take-the-long-way dept
In an attempt to cut down on the large number of videos on its site that violate copyrights, YouTube says it's now instituted a ten-minute limit for most uploads, in addition to its previous 100 MB cap. The company says that the vast majority of videos in its library that were over 10 minutes were copyrighted TV shows and movies, and that it's trying to strike a balance on holders' copyrights. It's a pretty simple and quick way to try to cut down on people posting copyrighted movies and shows, but all it really does is make piracy slightly more difficult, not make it impossible -- which, when you think about it, is sort of how DRM works. Except YouTube's solution doesn't come with all the ancillary BS that accompanies most copy-protection schemes. The bigger underlying question for YouTube, though, is that by making friends with TV networks and movie studios, will it be making enemies of its user base? That seems doubtful, as much of the viral videos that have made it so popular will fly under the 10-minute radar, copyright-infringing or not. This is a pretty smart solution that should eliminate the worst of the problem for YouTube, but allow it to keep most of the materials it holds that make it so popular.
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Kramkoob.com
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To google video!
All I can say is: To google video!
"We're accepting digital video files of any length and size."
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I agree...
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try livedigital.com
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Uh.... HELLO!!!! That's all ANY security does. No security is 100% foolproof. All good security works by slowing down those trying to subvert it. Idiots will be slowed down to a stop. The hope is that the smart people will be slowed down enough that the security system can react and either move what's being guarded, adjust security protocols to make the attackers start over again or instigate a counterattack to identify or otherwise negate the attackers.
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Predict this will satify no one
As an example, look at the highly publisized clips that have been pulled recently. In each of those cases, it was proved that the clip was actually helping the show(indirectly generating revenue), but since it wasn't directly generating cash(no payment for each watcher) the industry forced it to be pulled.
All this is going to do, is make the YouTube users upset. It certainly won't make the TV/Movie industry happy. So no one wins.
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future audio/videoreleases
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