Viacom on Haterade
This makes no sense to me. There is almost nothing that airs on TV that doesn't pop up on You Tube within minutes/hours. I have watched more clips from various TV programs and it's made me more likely to visit the site. Why are making You Tube yank them down.
Well, boo hiss to them! They shouldn't be at war with You Tube, they should be thanking them for giving them another outlet for their programs.
Viacom, the parent firm of cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, has told popular video sharing site YouTube to remove 100,000 "unauthorised" clips.
YouTube and its parent Google failed to install tools to "filter" the unauthorised video clips, said Viacom.
The firm said after talks over several months YouTube seemed "unwilling to come to a fair market agreement" to let readers access Viacom content.
YouTube has said it will comply with Viacom's request.
'Passionate audience'
The firm said that it works with "all copyright holders to identify and promptly remove infringing content" as soon as it is officially notified.
But it added that it was "unfortunate" that Viacom would no longer be able to "benefit from YouTube's passionate audience which had helped promote many of Viacom's shows".
Well, boo hiss to them! They shouldn't be at war with You Tube, they should be thanking them for giving them another outlet for their programs.
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Media conglomerates are just too greedy and too short sighted to see how it's helping them out in the long run. They'd rather kill what they don't understand than to actually see where it's going. Remember they view us as their helpless puppets, instead of us as the driver of their content.
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