| Teen fake polices YouTube clips - from BNA headlines |
When I read the blurb of this article on the BNA email, I didn't understand what it was talking about. Once I read the full article, i realized my confusion mostly stemmed from the utter ridiculousness of what occurred. A fake letter sent from a fifteen-year old was sent to Youtube, a billion dollar website, pertaining to the removal of clips owned by the ABC network. Not a single person at Youtube followed up on this. They began to send emails to the posters of things owned by ABC telling them that they had violated copyright laws. Am I the only person that finds this unbelievable? It absolutely blows my mind that no one at Youtube furthered this up with the actual ABC network. I think this is telling in how the feelings about intellectual property are changing. People are running scared. website are nervous about being sued, so they are extremely proactive in preventing this from even occurring. This comes from two separate places. The first is the overly litigious zeitgeist of American society. People find that they can attempt to bring lawsuits over almost anything. The second facet of this is that with the amount of money being made in solely virtual spaces, everyone is both paranoid they are steeping on someone else's proverbial toes and intent on making the most amount of money possible.
In the coming years, or months, the internet is going to be viewed in a vastly different way. It will likely be a cycle. After the dot-com bubble burst, people shied away. However, it is obvious they are coming back, more cautiously, yet just as greedily.
Still, someone should have fact-checked the letter. This could have been an international incident between the U.S. and Australia. Ha!
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