YouTube's Unspoken Linking Policy For Copyright Infringers 73
Hackajar writes "Valleywag has an interesting post detailing YouTube's new way to deal with copyrighted music videos, removing embed tags and linking it to the official content on site. What's significant here is the lack of video removal by YouTube staff. From the post, "Uploads of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading "Contains content from [insert studio here]"". They use a Modest Mouse music video from a third party to illustrate the new change."
Re:Don't forget... (Score:0, Insightful)
Re:YouTube's unspoken policy for fair users (Score:1, Insightful)
Society changes...
We did not always have YouTube, and Society will adapt if we remove the ability to record a video of your 1 year old son dancing to a well-known song.
We participated in society and with our extended family extended family before YouTube, and many of us still do without YouTube right now.
Re:YouTube's unspoken policy for fair users (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:YouTube's unspoken policy for fair users (Score:5, Insightful)
Those bastards in the RIAA want to have their cake and eat it too. They practice payola to promote songs so that they get heard, and then once they get heard they charge radio stations for playing them.
While they are slowly dying as a result of failing to adapt, there's still much to be done to make the record labels die faster. Take wikipedia for example -- it feels like every second page has a sentence or paragraph that promotes some band, or song. You know the "The Blahblah, wrote a song about the French Revolution, it's on the XYZ album" Yep... That's spam. Wikipedia is absolutely full of it. Even most music articles (that actually have sources) quote sources that are media articles derived from RIAA press releases, or direct to the band's own marketing devices such as their MySpace or Website. That's how the Record Labels make more money. That sort of crap needs to be stopped.
Re:Don't forget... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:YouTube's unspoken policy for fair users (Score:3, Insightful)
-1 flamebait
You can record a video of your son dancing to a well-known song. What you cannot do is post that video to an international web site where millions of people can download it. And why would you want to do that anyway? I only want to share my home videos with family members. So I post them to my personal web site and email a URL.