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Originally Posted by DWB
I don't disagree with any of that. The tubes are here to stay and they have traffic. That I do not debate.
What I would like to see happen is to place restrictions on the uploaders by how they create an account. Just make a system to verify them. If you have to have [email protected] in order to create an account, that will eliminate a large portion of 3rd world and broke ass uploaders. Then go a step further and say only videos can be loaded from that account that come from the site or program attached to the email. That would eliminate another huge portion of pirates. |
I feel you man, but what Nathan/Fabian/whatthefuckever is getting at, is once you start "pre-screening" people, you eliminate the safe harbor provisions of DMCA. It's the same for a web hosting company. Once you start going "looking for" offenders, you are basically doing some level of 'moderation' or oversight. This is where you get into trouble. It is typically why these various companies play Schultz from Hogan's Heros.
In short, there is legal landmines that play into this on some degree. Not just the piracy side, and enforcement of that. But switching their tubes from the pure theft they were when they had bought them, to slowly weeding that shit out, and bringing in legal content over time without losing their traffic, or standing in the business model as an example.
Again, I am not excusing them, or saying all of this is right or wrong. I am simply saying, they are now a huge corporate enterprise. Whether we like it or not, they have people to answer too (Playboy, investors, whomever). You are going to see them operate the same as a telco, wall street banks, CCBill, or whatever. Change will come slowly. Often times very very very slowly.
