Viacom asks for 100 000 vids removed from youtube

Looks like the bubble could be bursting

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...F1F0420-D93B-4FFE-BE37-D8296063882D}&dist=rss

 

Explains why I cant find stuff on youtube anymore. Notice the Beeb are hot on this too, Re. Top Gear footage for example.

 

Love Top Gear, on our local TV. Bazza

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Everything southpark has gone but trailers

 

Napster all over again.



~C

PS: Of course, there is always Metacafe.com, and the others that i just had a major brain fart on and can't remember...LOL

 

LOL yeah could understand thats a pain (he says stroking his Southpark box set). flip side is what of all this talk of paying royalties for uploaded video. Now that will blow open the issue of who owns what, and what 'acceptable modification' is, and how little something can be altered before it becomes 'artistically' different from the original source.

 

Up here in Kanada the actors union is trying to get pay for actors whoose likeness is "Stolen" against their contractual agreements. confused