Re:Viacom slaps Google with $1 billion lawsuit
by mynameishere on Wednesday March 14, 2007 @01:11PM
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Seems odd to witness a lot of business-type people arguing (or at least leaning) in favor of copyright infringement.
I mean, we could argue for a while about whether some kid should be allowed to download songs off of bittorrent. That's just some kid. But then, you have a huge corporation doing almost the same (okay, okay, with all due equivocations, like: They're only hosting/distributing, not uploading). Well, google isn't distributing video out of a love of the artform. I mean, person X builds/owns something, and person Y profits from it, or at least tries to. See no problem there? It might come down to "might makes right" here, if google has sufficiently expensive lawyers.
The seemingly obvious solution is to tack a 15-second advertisement on the videos and then share the proceeds with the owner.
I mean, we could argue for a while about whether some kid should be allowed to download songs off of bittorrent. That's just some kid. But then, you have a huge corporation doing almost the same (okay, okay, with all due equivocations, like: They're only hosting/distributing, not uploading). Well, google isn't distributing video out of a love of the artform. I mean, person X builds/owns something, and person Y profits from it, or at least tries to. See no problem there? It might come down to "might makes right" here, if google has sufficiently expensive lawyers.
The seemingly obvious solution is to tack a 15-second advertisement on the videos and then share the proceeds with the owner.