Posted by Colin B on 12/19/06 17:47

"Bill Funk" <BigBill@there.com> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:23:24 GMT, "blahblah_nospam@sbcglobal.net"
> <EDM_spamblock_@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>>Anyone who's spent more than a few minutes on YouTube,
>>MySpace, Google Videos etc knows that nearly everything
>>posted is home brewed and doesn't violate any commercial
>>copyright.
>
> I just now went to youtube, and of the four videos listed on the top
> of the page (under "Director Videos"), three were very obviously of
> copyrighted material.
> --
> Bill Funk
> replace "g" with "a"

On this site:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/09/21/youtubes-magic-number-15-billion/

it says that:

"These 100 million daily video views aren't people watching kittens fall
asleep. Most of the popular videos on YouTube contain copyrighted material
that YouTube shouldn't be presenting in the first place. This isn't just
music videos and Saturday Night Live skits - if music is playing in the
background while someone is dancing around, that's still copyright
infringement. "

The emphasis is on the words "popular videos". For example, try typing in
"Borat" in the search section of Youtube and you will find several million
people have viewed these videos. This one alone has been viewed more than 2
million times! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGM5SdRve78

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