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October 30, 2006
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YouFlush: New York Times says "YouTube is Purging Copyrighted Clips"... that original "anyone can contribute anything and we'll publish it!" model didn't hold up after the business became significant. YouTube also has issues with audience divisiveness... jihadi sympathizers are flagging exposes as "objectionable", while normal people are complaining about their snuff clips and Pallywood action. (I bet there's a "flag it" campaign with the US elections too, but I've been too disgusted to read much campaigning news.) Bottom line: I think social services have to construct member-exclusion and content-exclusion architecture from the start, the whole "good fences make good neighbors" interaction. The simplistic anti-DRM stance being fed to people today is not a sustainable position, but it is a vocal and costly position. Being clear with content-exclusion and member-exclusion policies from the start avoids the rebalancing that YouTube's going through now.
Posted by JohnDowdell at October 30, 2006 07:47 AM
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Classic fear of change. Companies like Comedy Central should be embrassing their stuff being on YouTube, and similar content distribution models. Consumers are now in charge of how they get their media and the companies that clue into this will reap the rewards of doing so.
Posted by: Ryan Favro at October 30, 2006 09:36 AM