Cry Havoc
01-14-2009, 04:39 PM
http://mashable.com/2009/01/14/youtube-mutes-videos/
Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I’m afraid that they won’t be able to do that much longer, since YouTube has started muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music (and that pretty much means all user-created videos.)
You can see some examples here, here and here.
The official notice from YouTube under the video says the following:
“This video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.”
If YouTube starts being thorough about this, you can expect to see a significant percentage of all YouTube videos muted. The implications are a bit different than with removing copyrighted professionally produced content, like an official music video; we’re talking about tens of thousands of fan made videos, funny spoofs, remixes and the like being pretty much destroyed, and I’m guessing users will be less than thrilled about it.
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Thought about posting this in "Geek Zone", but since nearly all net users have at least browsed youtube at one point or another, this is probably more of a global thing.
We could be seeing the death of youtube happening. Censorship. It starts with copyrighted music. Where does it end?
Sucks. I see the internet becoming increasingly hostile (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080603-40gb-for-55-per-month-time-warner-bandwidth-caps-arrive.html) to it's own users, the people that give it life and breath. In less than three decades, we might see it go from virtually nothing, to a completely worldwide phenomenon, to a relatively spartan environment where only the wealthy have true freedom of access. These things don't happen all at once. They start with stuff like this.
Perhaps this has been going on for a while, but I’ve never noticed it before. YouTube users often create an original video using their favorite popular song as the audio. I’m afraid that they won’t be able to do that much longer, since YouTube has started muting videos that use unauthorized copyrighted music (and that pretty much means all user-created videos.)
You can see some examples here, here and here.
The official notice from YouTube under the video says the following:
“This video contains an audio track that has not been authorised by all copyright holders. The audio has been disabled.”
If YouTube starts being thorough about this, you can expect to see a significant percentage of all YouTube videos muted. The implications are a bit different than with removing copyrighted professionally produced content, like an official music video; we’re talking about tens of thousands of fan made videos, funny spoofs, remixes and the like being pretty much destroyed, and I’m guessing users will be less than thrilled about it.
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Thought about posting this in "Geek Zone", but since nearly all net users have at least browsed youtube at one point or another, this is probably more of a global thing.
We could be seeing the death of youtube happening. Censorship. It starts with copyrighted music. Where does it end?
Sucks. I see the internet becoming increasingly hostile (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080603-40gb-for-55-per-month-time-warner-bandwidth-caps-arrive.html) to it's own users, the people that give it life and breath. In less than three decades, we might see it go from virtually nothing, to a completely worldwide phenomenon, to a relatively spartan environment where only the wealthy have true freedom of access. These things don't happen all at once. They start with stuff like this.