Comments on: Can Viacom Force YouTube to Implement Automatic Blocking of Video Uploads? http://bobcaswell.com/2007/02/03/can-viacom-force-youtube-to-implement-automatic-blocking-of-video-uploads/ Media consumer, tech enthusiast, and blogger Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Bob Caswell http://bobcaswell.com/2007/02/03/can-viacom-force-youtube-to-implement-automatic-blocking-of-video-uploads/comment-page-1/#comment-532 Bob Caswell Sun, 04 Feb 2007 21:17:48 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/02/03/can-viacom-force-youtube-to-implement-automatic-blocking-of-video-uploads/#comment-532 Harn, I appreciate your perspective. Makes sense. I suppose my take revolves around how slowly big, bloated companies seem to react to a socially driven Internet. Digital media is so extremely convenient, accessible, popular, etc. and yet, Viacom is in denial about the whole thing, what with quotes like "no marketing advantage." The world is adapting and changing around it while it's so slow to react. I don't know that I think YouTubers have a "right" to rip others stuff. But at the same time, I'm not impressed with Viacom making up its own rights (forcing YouTube to implement filtering, etc.) rather than moving where the market naturally wants it to go. Harn,

I appreciate your perspective. Makes sense. I suppose my take revolves around how slowly big, bloated companies seem to react to a socially driven Internet.

Digital media is so extremely convenient, accessible, popular, etc. and yet, Viacom is in denial about the whole thing, what with quotes like “no marketing advantage.”

The world is adapting and changing around it while it’s so slow to react. I don’t know that I think YouTubers have a “right” to rip others stuff. But at the same time, I’m not impressed with Viacom making up its own rights (forcing YouTube to implement filtering, etc.) rather than moving where the market naturally wants it to go.

]]> By: Harn Soper http://bobcaswell.com/2007/02/03/can-viacom-force-youtube-to-implement-automatic-blocking-of-video-uploads/comment-page-1/#comment-531 Harn Soper Sun, 04 Feb 2007 08:39:49 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/2007/02/03/can-viacom-force-youtube-to-implement-automatic-blocking-of-video-uploads/#comment-531 Regardless what YouTube/Google is "required" to do under current law, good community behavior would be to do all in their power to agressivily respect content ownership regarldess if it is from ViaCom or from you and me as individuals. Personally, I'd like to be asked first before my creative efforts were usurped by someone else. In my generation, my parents drilled respect into me (thank you Mom & Dad) and sometimes, with all the lame excuses I hear coming to YouTuber's about their "right" to rip others stuff ... well that disapoints me deeply. I hear enough from our elected officials in Washington that they did "nothing illegal" as their ethics sank to an all time low. Is the YouTube generation just as ethically corrupt. What a dissapointment if that is true. Regardless what YouTube/Google is “required” to do under current law, good community behavior would be to do all in their power to agressivily respect content ownership regarldess if it is from ViaCom or from you and me as individuals. Personally, I’d like to be asked first before my creative efforts were usurped by someone else. In my generation, my parents drilled respect into me (thank you Mom & Dad) and sometimes, with all the lame excuses I hear coming to YouTuber’s about their “right” to rip others stuff … well that disapoints me deeply. I hear enough from our elected officials in Washington that they did “nothing illegal” as their ethics sank to an all time low. Is the YouTube generation just as ethically corrupt. What a dissapointment if that is true.

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