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Originally Posted by Nathan
DWB, you realize that means facebook can close? so can flikr, and any other photo sharing or video sharing site?
youtube too of course..
So you find that a good thing then?
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Just because they are huge sites doesn't mean they can just do whatever they want. It's the lack of accountability that has created the problem.
If Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr have to crack down, so be it. I wouldn't lose any sleep if they stopped allowing people to upload content, would you? Even if they had to close, life as we know it would continue.
If everyone has to be mindful of their chargeback ratio, then everyone can be mindful of the content on their sites. How they have to be mindful is not my problem. If you want to have that sort of site, then you also get the responsibility of keeping it clean.
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Originally Posted by Nathan
Also, let's say in your example, met-art themself uploads a video. Let's also pretend we have some kind of a procedure where we can verify that they have a license for it, which honestly I find very very hard to do, but ok, if you think so...
Now, let's pretend met-art got the license from producer A, and uploads the video. 2 days later producer A has some issue with met-art and revokes the license. Producer A then DMCA's us to get the video removed.
What now?
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I haven't planned out every detail, but you do raise a valid question.
Say producer A sends you a DMCA but you do have a license, that should not count as an undisputed DCMA. It would only mean you have a license, but the owner now wishes to remove the content. It would be a legit DMCA so long as you can provide the original license.
Sure, it would be painful for sites who allow user submitted content, but being easy is what has us in the current situation.
You and I both know that sooner or later a law will change and this will all come to an end. Maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but there will come a point in time where it will, and then everyone with user submitted content sites will have to deal with the problem at that time anyway.
I have faith that your company would be able to do it. And those who can't, let them fail, or they get bought out by those who can comply.
But like I said, would never happen because hosting companies are greedy (as is everyone else), and it would be impossible to enforce on a global scale because there will always be rogue countries willing to host anything. But for those countries who are responsible, it could nip a lot of the piracy issues right in the ass. Making it difficult to create and maintain a site like yours is why the concept would succeed.