Google and copyright infringement
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What really should concern everyone about that is the privacy issues. If it were about copyright then the content could have been flagged and removed and only the logs of the uploader devulged, but that isn't what was asked.
Those logs are very sensitive material and probably worth a pretty huge amount of money to people wanting to exploit them.
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The reason behind it is simple. Companies like Sky TV and Viacom want to know how many views their copyrighted material have received on YouTube, and they'll want payment for those views. Like they could care if Joe Bloggs or Fred Smith watched their show, they'll just want the royalties that they deserve.
Google bought YouTube even though they knew the whole issue of illegal use of copyrighted material would be challenged in the courts, and that they'd probably lose.
It seems to me that people on here are against YouTube being punished for their blatant theft of copyright material, but I think that the same people would think completely differently were the stolen materials 3D models or CG artwork.
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@unknownuser said:
So tell me, if the SCF contains copyrighted material one day that has slipped the eyes of our Moderators, are we thieves also? Because that kinda is what your post says about YouTube.
No it isn't. SCF was set up as a website to discuss Sketchup. If someone does post copyrighted material it will be removed the instant it is discovered by a moderator. It's clear that sharing copyrighted material is not approved of and won't be condoned.
YouTube was built on the back of millions of illegally shared videos. It became a billion dollar company mainly because of that.
SCF may have a tiny amount of copyright infringements, YouTube will have hundreds of thousands, if not millions of them.
@unknownuser said:
I think it is a little easy to state blatant theft just because they can't keep up with the huge amounts of uploads everyday. It's just impossible to moderate all that content. Well, they DO have a $#!tload of money in the bank so they ought to, but the reality of it is that it would still be a massive task.
YouTube will probably pay out a few hundred million to the major companies whose copyrights they've infringed. That cost was probably factored into the purchase price of YouTube when Google bought it. Viacom, Sky and other media companies will get a nice payday, YouTube will shrug it's shoulders at and see it's worth increase by $500m as this issue is finally ended.
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A little update on this over at the BBC NEWS site.
@unknownuser said:
Viacom has "backed off" from
demands to divulge the viewing
habits of every user who has
ever watched a video on YouTube,
the website has claimed.Google had been ordered to provide
personal details of millions of
YouTube users to help Viacom
prepare its case on alleged
copyright infringement.
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