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Quote from: SteveFyeah the good bit about youtube was its total and utter lack of respect for copyright laws.

And this is a good thing?

Yup copyright was introduced to stop people making money by blatently copying a product and claiming it as their own.  We can thank Mr Walt Disney and a series of corporations for bastardising the law into what it is today.

Current copyright law is a joke.

Quote from: funkychicken9000The only reason people didnt legally f*** youtube was because they had no money.  Hope google keep it locked down  :shock:

Yup 100%.  There was no point in suing youtube as the only thing they could achieve was shutting them down.  They had no revenue model or income.  It wasnt worth a companies risk to sue them as they got nothing out of it and would risk a court saying it was lawful and setting a precedent.  They couldnt possibly extract money from youtube and the only thing they could achieve would be really bad press in the same way Metallica got hated for pursuing Napster.

Now its owned by google they have a truckton of money.  The reason to sue just got interesting and Id bet google isnt going to risk that.

Quote from: BigSoyIf I was a company wanting to fight someone over copyright, Id rather have fought YouTube than Google tbh.

Google may "dont be evil", but they have the financial and strength of numbers clout to potentially make changes to the way we get our media content beyond the scale of what has yet been seen.

The thing is, the owners of Youtube had no money,  Google has LOTS of money and thus will attract the lawsuits.

TBH im not bothered who owns a company providing it stays the same and still delivers what it always has.

Quote from: Chuck NorrisTBH im not bothered who owns a company providing it stays the same and still delivers what it always has.

I think the point of this is it wont.  And awesome job youtube for making it  This is kind of still a tek forum or at least was so perfect post.

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Quote from: Chuck NorrisTBH im not bothered who owns a company providing it stays the same and still delivers what it always has.

I think the point of this is it wont.  And awesome job youtube for making it  This is kind of still a tek forum or at least was so perfect post.

youtube was already changing before this announcement, thats going to continue. A lot of the stuff on there is advertising and is being paid for, not enough for them to make money but given time.