Intersection of Copyright, Users, and the Law = Stinky

YouTube, who takes a liberal approach to safeguarding copyrights, enables the law to become trounced by the ease-of-use. If I can copy a video-clip and post it, so easily, then it can’t be wrong to do so.(?) It’s the way we are behaving, and behavior leads the market. The old media companies need to get up to speed, it’s not my fault I’ve figured a way to get their content. Hmmm. The argument that “it’s what the people are doing, and the big media companies are jerks so screw ‘em”, doesn’t hold up to copyright law. If GoogleTube expected that users would want this type of experience they should have gone the way of Apple, make a business model that works, such as charging for downloads and sharing the revenues, splitting the ad-revenues, AND protecting their members. It’s YouTube that has thrown it’s members into the pit, not the Judge who orders them to divulge data. To me the problem is that most everyone is br...