Comments on: Gootube Terrorizes Copyright Owners by Withholding Filters

By: LEO

LEO — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 22:40:45 +0000

HERE http://youtube.com/watch?v=oMlG_OG1mPY

By: Jay Dee

Jay Dee — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:02:42 +0000

\"There is plenty of porn on Google Video. There is even a category for it. You just have to know how to find it. Still no porn found on Youtube yet\" never knew this, ill definately go away and have a look for some porn movies!

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By: Portland Web Design

Portland Web Design — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:47:49 +0000

Good post. YouTube does have that content warning that requires age verification.

By: Hermes Jimenez

Hermes Jimenez — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:59:37 +0000

Marc or someone answer this… Would you ever write a book on all the NBA dirty tricks and all the behind the scenes stuff???

By: Karl K

Karl K — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 01:58:42 +0000

One strong point of YouTube it helps people share the pathetic state of the NBA… Some things they just miss on ESPN.

You can see former Clipper Center 7\’3\” Keith Closs getting beat down by a mob, or getting dunked on by Antonio Daniels.

You get to see Kobe elbowing everybody… \’Jaric, Ginobili, Miller, etc….. even his own teammate(Sasha)

Maybe the NBA should adopt the \’Don\’t be Evil\’ philosophy. (What kind of coincedent is it that the NBA & Spalding come out with a new ball after Adidas makes a killing releasing their new ball for the World Cup?\’ David Stern is not only evil, but unoriginal…. But thats another story….)

By: Jeff Johnson

Jeff Johnson — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:23:11 +0000

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By: caweir

caweir — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:58:05 +0000

I\’m glad to see Viacom standing up to Google. The power that Google has is amazing and it makes it more difficult for us \”little guys\”. These ebooks help you start your own internet business.

By: Gaan Loda

Gaan Loda — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 04:30:26 +0000

Mark – why are you being such a hater? Google is only innovating here, and is technically operating legally. This reminds me of when you complained about Shaq and the Lakers all the time back in the day.

By: Sal Amato

Sal Amato — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:58:48 +0000

Mark, I wrote you about this years ago and will say it again. Webcasters are fighting the wrong fight and being laughed at everyday because they don\’t have street sense. The goal has always been as much domination in what and what is online because like the mob, the labels live off of the distribution of their products and other people\’s \”products\”. They don\’t put records out to not be sold, to not be exposed. This argument that the artist should be paid is BULL SHIT. As an \”artist\”, there\’s two types. One who\’s an \”artist\” in their own mind and one who is a success. It has been and forever will be a roll of the dice. There is no guarantee they will ever see a dime for their \”art\” just as there is no guarantee a painter\’s work in a gallery will every be sold. The choice they made to be an artist doesn\’t mean they\’ll ever get paid. It\’s a tremendous risk to think that because you\’re an artist you\’ll make a living at it. To want to balance that risk now and say \”we want to paid all the time\” is ludicrous. If that\’s the case then the radio stations should be able to charge the labels to play the music. That\’s called payola though isn\’t it? This is ridiculous. If an injunction isn\’t slapped on this latest raping and pillaging and a DOJ investigation isn\’t demanded on the mischaracterization of internet broadcasters within the DMCA then it\’s over. I\’m so glad you were able to profit from this industry in a manner we may never get to. In the end, it\’ll be the FIVE FAMILIES controlling all the broadcasting online. AOL, REAL, MSN, CCU and YAHOO. But then those were my exact words on the Hill back in 02. No one wanted to fight this the right way. And the way they\’ve fought, the cutting the deals and lending credence to the BS that is the DMCA by allowing the CARP royalties to be written into law was the first beating this industry took. I said it then and say it now, you don\’t negotiate under duress. You either get in the shit and brawl with those who smile at you while they plan your death or go home and find another field to work in or be an entrepeneur in. The fight to this point has been pathetic and those leading the fight have LOST EVERY SINGLE FIGHT TO THIS DATE. EVERY ONE. Time for a new way before it\’s too late. Kind of like Lovey leaving Rex in during the Super Bowl. Shoulda pulled him for Griese. Rex was evidently not going to get anything done by that 8 minute point in the 4th, it\’s not like there was another game the following week so there\’s nothing to lose and yet… they lost.

By: Chad Hurley

Chad Hurley — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:54:23 +0000

Youtube is one of the most popular video sharing sites on the net. A year ago, co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were in between jobs, a pair of twentysomething geeks running up big credit card debts as they tooled around a garage trying to develop an easy way for people to share homemade videos on the Web.

Hurley says, I do not want to work hard. I want to live a soft life. I want to sleep for three hours every afternoon and nine hours at night. I do not want to stay awake the whole day so that I can get a few 350 grand at the end of each month. I do not want my talents to be exploited by a ruthless employer. I am a lazy man. That is why I choose to live off the net. I am too lethargic to try and survive in the real world. That is why I did not bother to hold down a job though my credit card debt soared.

On the net things are handed to me by Google. The idea of youtube came to me from a dinner party with a half-dozen friends in the greatest city in the world San Francisco. It was January, 2005, and we couldnt figure out a good solution. Sending the clips around by e-mail was a bust: The e-mails kept getting rejected because they were so big. Posting the videos online was a headache, too. So we created a site and put in basic software.

What I and Steve came up with is a Web site, now called YouTube, that has become an Internet phenomenon. Show the honey and the bees will flock to it. We worked for about six hours each week for two months designing youtube. We had the idea to create a community around the video.

Once that was done we knew that tons of millions of dollars would just flow into our laps after the Google buyour. We will not have to work hard. In the old economy you have to work really hard for a lousy promotion which might give you a few more grand if your employer is very generous. You have to get up 3early in the morning and run for a few grand. On the net you can become rich without working hard.

On the net once you have the idea you just sit at home and then magic will happen. That is exactly what happened at Paypal, Skype, MySpace, Facebook. The basic, simple to design software that I and Chen designed allows people to post almost anything they like on YouTube in minutes. People can jack off on porn. Now we are sitting at home retired early after the Google buyout. Content has been handed to us on a silver platter. We do not have to slog hard to create content like a poorly paid online journalist who makes a lousy 450k each year. We do not have to experience daily financial pressure because our site does not get enough readers. We are not under pressure to meet deadlines. We get up at ten in the morning and consider that to be hard work. We do not have to work for ten llllong years. That is the privilege of those in the old economy. they take the tube to go to work for a bum 350,000 dollar paycheck at the end of the month.

We have it easy. The reason why we never held a job for more than a year was because we felt that a rope was attached to out necks. We would have had to stay chained in an office with four walls. It is such a pain to get up in the morning and run for the sake of a few 350 milli grand at the end of the month. The content that we offer is free. That is easy for us to that as we do not have to work to create it. Copyrighted work is there for our users to copy and paste as that is work which we have the right to copy. Other content
comes from common folk wanting to share stuff.

Revenues will come from advertising. The net is a click and eyeballs business. Google understands this. The clicks come from youtubes milllions of eyeballs that we have not worked for. It is unearned traffic. We do not have to sweat and bleed for it. That is the privilege of poorly paid online journalists. I do not have to worry about losing my job as my content does not get get enough page views. I do not have to take the initiative about my own life. I do not have to discipline myself. I do not have to worry about having a career. The millions of youtube.com visitors will ensure that this will never happen. I can simply focus on trying to build relationships with my tall, tough women friends in San Francisco. We hang out together. We work out together. We sleep in the afternoon together.