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Posted by Colin B on 02/06/07 08:40
"Bill" <trash@chromehorse.net> wrote in message
news:PKOdnQZJH-X2gl_YnZ2dnUVZ_hmtnZ2d@golden.net...
> That's an interesting angle. Isn't the customer essentially having his
> own archive copy made of music he is perfectly entitled to, by a proxy?
>
> You know, we keep recycling these arguments about the law-- as I've said
> before, I would be very interested in hearing of any actual court case
> that reached judgment (none of this "out of court settlement" crap). I am
> very skeptical that any case similar to that described below ever resulted
> in a guilty verdict-- but that's just my intuition.
I would also like to know whether a person who has, without consent,
illegally uploaded video to a web site such as Youtube, been successfully
prosecuted. It seems that the younger generation in particular seems to
think that copyright policing doesn't exist. Sites such as Youtube can set a
bad example to our youth because even when copyrighted material is removed,
someone fearlessly (and anonymously) is able to put it back up again. The
whole principle of copyright seems to be under considerable threat in such
video sharing web sites because copyrighted material that is uploaded is
often slow to be removed, or not removed at all. You could almost say that,
on a site like Youtube, copyright has been soundly defeated. The young
people are obviously delighted with this, but the copyright holders aren't!
See this article, "Does YouTube Have a Control Problem"?
http://news.com.com/Does+YouTube+have+a+control+problem/2100-1030_3-6156025.html
It says in this article that:
"The parent company of Comedy Central and Nickelodeon demanded Friday that
YouTube remove 100,000 clips from the site that feature Viacom shows. The
number of videos is three times more than the 30,000 videos that the
Japanese entertainment industry demanded YouTube pull last October. "
This shows the huge extent of the copyright problem for YouTube.
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