zorry!

Great - maybe YouTube will be returned to the masses. Viacom can post it’s stuff elsewhere (should post its stuff elsewhere). I was so sick of seeing all the CBS crap on YouTube. Let them post their videos on their own servers and leave YouTube to what it does best - non-professional/grass-roots personal videos. Even those pull lots of viewers!!

Not that corporate truculence like “We intend to use the information provided to pursue all available legal remedies against those who infringed our copyrights” is likely to win them new customers. It’s convenient for companies to complain that their shows are on TV and DVD and expect that consumers should be satisfied with those options. Obviously consumers aren’t. I’m amazed that content owners see customers accessing TV shows in new ways and say, We’ve got to put a stop to this, instead of, How can we make money off of this? Isn’t the latter The American Way?

If people are finding other avenues to content–even ways that are too lo-fi to expect to enjoy–Fox and companies like it need to open up similar, legit avenues to that content based on similar values. Is that so hard to fathom? Does Fox want to make money or just make themselves look bad? People want their content! They need to wake up and make new models, new ways of doing business to bid for this market and integrate with their other product lines.