Now that Youtube is in acquisition process by Google for $1.65 billion, it has made itself a huge milking target by other companies.
About a week ago, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were purged from Youtube after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers cited copyright infringement. Now, Viacom is asking for all copyrighted materials by Comedy Central to be removed as well so don’t expect any of the shows from “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and “South Park” being available on Youtube anytime soon.
As far as I can recall, this is the first Google acquisition that is riddled with tons of liabilities and risks. Expect more purging to come.
Looks like the cleaned up Youtube might suffer the same fate as Google Video. I reckon one day Youtube will also have to do manual reviews of uploaded clips before publishing it.
Will John C. Dvorak’s predictions hold true? That in the long run, this buy-out will only hurt Google and attract more lawsuits — all for a couple billion more page view inventory.
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Contrary to the derivative myth, the best stuff on YouTube is user-created. Because of that, TV networks are actually encouraged to maintain presences on YouTube.
The big media companies shouldn’t worry that people will post their copyrighted material on YouTube. They should worry that people will post their own stuff on YouTube, and audiences will watch that instead. — Paul Graham.
Buti nga sa Google…
First, here;s the good news.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6130881.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
Then, the bad news.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6130868.html?tag=zdfd.newsfeed
There you go, the future of YougleTube
Proofs that monopolies must be stopped. Especially in the web
I never thought Google was a monopoly. It would be something like if 70-90% of internet users are using Google and nothing else.