So after deleting 30,000 odd videos last week, The New York Times reports additional copyright materal is also being deleted rather hastily.
The site late last week began purging copyrighted material from Comedy Central, including clips from YouTube stalwarts like “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,” “The Colbert Report” and “South Park.”
The action was “a result of third-party notification by Comedy Central,” according to one such e-mail message sent to a YouTube user, Jeff Reifman, who broke the news on the Web site NewsCloud”.
Threadwatch asks if there is a middle ground, but this is hardly a suprise. I spoke about my views from user standpoint in a previous thread;
“Will it be to ‘Googley’? Will it become to strict, controlled, monitored, cencensored & just plain boring? What will happen with the copyrighted material? The kind of fun many get from Youtube is its complete freedom and diversity in broadcasts which YouTube have maintained without having to keep to a certain guideline or expectance from that of a brand like Google.”
Flurl anyone?
I pray that this is not the shape of things to come for collaborative video haring sites such as Youtube and its entourage.
October 31st, 2006