Andy Beale comments on a MarketWatch article about YouTube and copyright issues. Basically it comes down to this: YouTube allows anyone to post a video and, after the fact, users and copyright owners can question the legality of the video, which YouTube then takes down.
In the past, YouTube's strategy of "Post 'em all and let God the users sort them out" worked. YouTube could innocently shrug and meekly take down the offending video. After all, taking down a couple of hundred videos is nothing to needing to police the reported 60,000 videos that are uploaded daily.
The innocence schtick will only take YouTube so far, as they know. Google/YouTube has allocated $187 million for potential copyright infringement lawsuits.
The problem is, I'm not sure what a good solution is. The reason people like me go to YouTube is to catch a clip of a show - and that clip is probably breaking copyright rules. The thing that makes it illegal is the the thing that draws a lot of users. Catch-22?
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