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06/04/2008
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Here we go again. Apple Inc. and the ¡°pod¡± ownership letters¡YouTube with the ¡°infringement¡± letters. The fat greasy lawyers want a part of the action and it¡¯s going to get worse. It¡¯s the cheesy underbelly of the web and the slime oozes from the cracks. Good luck, Michael. I have my own ongoing battle with the word ¡°iTour¡± in my domain.
Bad execution but makes business sense. I am certain that Youtube is planning some sort of content distrtubtion that involves for-pay content. If there are tools out there that can easily download video - blah blah blah
As if my opinion matters, I will offer one. I would not cease and desist. I would force YouTube to do what they probably have intended to do all along AFTER they everyone hooked on their currently open and free web-based API¡¯s. They intend to start charging people for using their API¡¯s after they get everyone hooked. If they are forced to reveal this strategy before everyone gets hooked on them as part of ¡°mash-up¡± site content aggregation, then people might think twice about using them in the first place.
You tool (and others¡¯) use in this manner forces their hand and can result in protecting a LOT of people from being ¡°jacked¡± at the point of a gun later when Google decides they want to start collecting revenue from YouTube¡¯s use.
Cease and desist orders should be used with extreme caution when directed at the press. Otherwise they are a club that preemptively turns off discussion ( a right I consider invaluable) Doesn¡¯t look like W & S really exhausted their options before going to this measure. (2 voicemails does not a great effort make).
I knew this will happen the minute I saw your post about the tool on TC, but did not realize that it will be this soon. It just showed how popular TC is, considering this kind of tools exist and continue to exist way before TC has it in the public. But seriously, we just saw the tip of the iceberg about YouTube¡¯s issues regarding to the nature of its business that everybody is watching how it will evolve, the second Google bought YouTube.
My take on this will be to put myself in GooTube¡¯s shoes and think what I will do. I think I will have to do the same thing which is to keep improving on the technology front to solve the problem (don¡¯t know if it is ever going to be solved) while continue to hire lawyers to show that GooTube is serious about the issues it is facing and life goes on.
I got my first Cease and desist letter via email the other day from Digg. It was nicer wording that the youtube one. I have a domain name that uses digg in it so I am at fault and like Micheal I will take it down (well rename the site).
the letter shown here seems very heavy handed, the only bit I can see where they have a point is in using the name youtube but you could rename the product for that to be fixed. As for the content issue I fail to see what their point is. when you view the video it is no longer on thier site as its downloaded to your computer.
Just imagine this, in year 2050, technology has enable human brain to act as a massive digital storage device as well as to have a way to distribute the information in our brain among people without any external devices. Do lawyers write a letter demanding everyone to cease and desist? I think the technology is not the problem here. It is the copyright law of today.
The music industry has demonstrated that using systems to avoid copies is useless and that user are not bandit and so that they are going to pay small sums to see contents.
If Google is planning to use their websites to broadcast video from majors, I believe this stupid letter is only a demonstration to them (quite stupid people) that they care about copyright protection.
They¡¯re just pissed that you broke the YouTube/ Google thing. I don¡¯t know that nay part of it is problematic EXCEPT the YouTube name in the title, but that¡¯s an easy fix.
¡°TechCrunch is not authorized to promote YouTube?¡± Does that mean I don¡¯t get to write about YouTube in my blogs? Exactly how DO they think people found them in the first place? If they are going to require authorization, I think we should all stop linking and writing about YouTube. Watch the hit numbers dip, and maybe they will change their tune.
I can¡¯t decide if I should be scratching my head, laughing my @$$ off, or just be plain pissed off.
The fact that YouTube, of all freakin¡¯ people, is suing someone for copyright infringement would be like Jesus Christ crucifying someone for turning water into wine: It¡¯s just plain stupid and hypocritcal.
It also makes me very sad that, since Google now owns YouTube, they are in someway involved in this¡.and it really makes me question my respect for them.
If you were hurting someone, making money from the videos, etc. I could understand, but this is just plain ridiculous.
We understand if you take down the video. Sometimes it¡¯s just not worth the fight. We must spread the word about youtube to average users. I would stop using the ¡°service¡± as your content becomes their content:
¡°. . . you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the User Submissions in connection with the YouTube Website and YouTube¡¯s (and its successor¡¯s) business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the YouTube Website (and derivative works thereof) ¡±
I am wondering whether this is linked by Google, who infact have not yet completed complete take over of youtube.. Would be interesting to see if this is continued once YouTube is officaly owned and controller by Google..Well keep fighting Mike
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