Why is YouTube dragging their feet…
Hollywood apparently isn’t pleased by the speed of YouTube doing what they are suppose to be doing. I will have to side with the old guard on this one, as it appears to me that Google and YouTube are deliberately dragging their feet and slowing down a legal ending to this. Could it be that luxury home that they all live in now, might not be affordable if they rid their sites of the copyrighted content?
I seriously doubt that last statement. The article does state a point that can’t be ignored
NLPC Chairman Ken Boehm said that in just a couple of weeks he has found more than 125 full-length movies, TV shows and live music performances on Google Video. He strongly doubts Google when it says it can’t block infringing content.
“If a 58-year-old former prosecutor can find this stuff, Google should be able to,” Boehm said. “I’m nobody’s idea of a computer expert. These folks are bleeding edge in terms of information. They should be ahead of the curve. This undermines the credibility of their technology…We think there isn’t good faith in their representations that they are doing all they can.”
YouTube on the other hand has no problems scoring new lucrative deals with their service. Big companies such as CBS who they recently negotiated a deal with. That leads me to believe they think they can eventually lock everyone up as quickly as possible and the technology will not have to work as stated.
I am thinking that they won’t lock everyone up. Remember, they didn’t lock up Viacom
Already hanging over the search engine’s head is Viacom’s $1 billion copyright complaint filed in March.
Technically Speaking, YouTube and Google need to lock these deals down, but at the same time they need to address the issue of copyright infringement head on. Without a legal platform, they will crumble like a house of cards that they are.
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