Viacom Vs YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=Gh2N9xyKK8k

How do you feel about the courts (an 81 year old judge) handing over the rights to excessive user information?

Do you see it that Viacom lost money from loss of viewers or that they could have gained viewers by seeing whole/parts of their programmes?

Another case that YouTube grew out of control and lost the ability to manage their own site or do Viacom see this as a money making opportunity? i.e. if they see X number of people are viewing content online, they can probably make a hefty sum of money through the partnership program?

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Good thing to bring up. Was reading all about this last night. I'm with the old school.

I feel that if a site can't control it's content, it shouldn't be allowed to make money. There was talk of one copyrighted video being watched 1.5 billion times!!! It's similar with the happy slapping and everything like that.

I know it changes the way we see such sites, but I think that just because the internet comes along, it shouldn't change the way we respect other people's property.

If I was investing loads of money making programs, I'd be hoping to get my money back selling it to other networks or running it on my own and monetizing through advertising.

Not for google to be hosting it for millions to see and to make a stack of cash themselves. If they want to run such a site, they should have mods vetting every single upload within hours at the most. If that's not feasible then youtube shouldn't exist.

My 2 p's worth.