Youtube without content

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If Youtube starts filtering copyrighted content, it will go down. The only reason I use Youtube is to watch shows that I missed which should be fair use anyway considering they were broadcasted over the air.

I use it to watch music videos and stuff

Aron, I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one. TV shows are not fair use after they are shown, because they are paid for with advertising revenue. Even when you use a VCR to record a show, you will be the only one watching it. Putting it on YouTube is essentially welcoming tons of people who didn't want to watch the show with commercials to watch it on the Internet. Some channels (Comedy Central, for example), are okay with this because the shows that are put up from them (Daily Show and Colbert Report) aren't used in reruns more than once or released on DVD's.

Flawed arguement. If something is broadcasted over the air it is public domained and people have the right to look at it a second time and then a third, etc... At no point does that right go away in the future.

Regardless if the network placed ads in the delivery, that doesn't matter. If you consider the entire stream as the content, modifying it for fair use is also legal.

That is true that is in the public domain. However, as the company still owns the copyright to the material they still reserve the right to take it down whenever they want.

Good news everyone! Youtube will still survive because there's lots of good home movies there from brendon small. Also, chad vader.

Bad news, Youtube won't survive on that alone.

That's kind of a moot argument, Tornado. Given the rising popularity of Tivo and other DVRs, commercials are wholely passed over anyway and will eventually became obsolete. So the 'ad revnue' argument will no longer hold in the coming years.

Also - when you tape a show you're not necessarily the only one to watch it. You can pass around a video, invite people over, trade it on the internet. The only thing that makes it legal is the fact that you're not <i>selling</i> it. And, correct me if I'm wrong, but YouTube is free.

Frankly, if a company refuses to put a show on DVD, they ought to put the episodes online or something. I'd happily buy DVDs of countless shows but since they don't make them and they're rarely on, I'll find another way to watch them.

I do believe it has started. There are 25,000 less Daily Show clips on there than there were just two weeks ago. Thank god Google Video isn't as heavily monitored, becaue I was looking for the 9/12/06 Daily Show Opening.

I have also read the headlines that Youtube has begun to crackdown.

Google may have purchased a turd.

Youtube is going downhill. They are removing all the good content...

We'll have to move somewhere else again.

of course YouTube would survive. It would just lose a lot of popularity.

It is impossible to have the copyright of something in the PD, Tornado. "Public Domain" basically means that everyone has equal copyright.