Thursday, September 25, 2008

YouTube's Copyright bullshit

If you put a video up on YouTube of, I don't know something like Mountain Biking, and that video has a song in it that YouTube's software flags as copyrighted material than YouTube can put ads on the page where the video appears.

The ads don't have to relate to the copyrighted material or the copyright holder, it just has to be copyrighted material. An example would be the video posted below when posted on YouTube had ads for McDonalds food, cruise line travel agents and hair products rotating next to it, no doubt with a "click-through" partner program deal in place. The good ole days of posting video's for your friends and family to see WITHOUT some form of corporate bloodsucking is over.

Do you want to know what I get out of this advertising deal?

Zipo

Bubbkiss

Zero

Nada

I think it's total BS!




Sedona Mt. biking from Director man on Vimeo.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I agree brother. I had 3 MTBing videos on there that were all muted. I pulled them off and will not bother again.

Anonymous said...

they provide bandwidth, that stuff doesn't come for free.

Anonymous said...

Start leaving comments underneath videos with these advertisements asking viewers to boycott the products and companies of the ad. I'm sure they will be quickly thumbed up enough so that they will remain at the top of the comment feed.

Anonymous said...

Might start a meme.