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Will It Soon Be No-Tube?

START THE COUNTDOWN TO FINAL DAYS OF YOU-TUBE


If you want to watch the fun-looking Flavor Flav Roast on Comedy Central tomorrow (Sunday 8/12 @ 10PM)) best to plan on catching it live on TV and not on YouTube in clips at a later time since the media giant that owns the cable station, Viacom,  is doing everything in its power stop clips like it been broadcast on YouTube. And Viacom is not alone in their war on the Google owned YouTube.  Earlier this week they were joined by several other TV broadcasters and publishing companies in  a major  copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular video file sharing website.  These proceedings ultimately mean that we should most likely now begin the countdown to the final days of YouTube .   One of those involved in the legal proceedings  The National Muisc Publishers'  Association said it is joining the lawsuit "out of concern that many songwriters aren't receiving proper compensation when their music appears on YouTube videos."  Additionally Viacom Inc. (which besides Comedy Central also owns MTV and other stations) and the Football Association Premier League are also part of the lawsuit against YouTube/Google.    And while this lawsuit seems crazy for many reasons including that most artists make no money off of past videos played on TV anyways - never mind crumby quality dubs on YouTube which most people only view and don't  download (unlike with Napster in its famous lawsuit some years back) - it certainly looks like it signals the final days of YouTube - as least as  it exists today.  So my advice: enjoy YouTube while you can. 

         

Posted by Billyjam on August 11, 2007 at 08:43am | Comments (1)

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Comedy Central, Youtube, File-sharing

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you tube is not going anywhere... I wouldn't worry too much about it.

Posted by anon... on August 11, 2007 at 05:31pm

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