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Why YouTube Needs the Rights to Your Video

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the all-in-the-phrasing dept.

erlichson writes "There has been a lot of controversy over the YouTube terms of service. Why are consumers surprised? Fundamentally, YouTube's business model requires that they get the rights to redistribute your content. This note analyzes an alternative publishing model available to consumers that doesn't require granting a license to your content, but the trade-off is that you won't get the same level of distribution."

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  1. Re:Why are consumers surprised? by Seiruu · · Score: 0, Troll

    No, having a BBQ party is not a free lunch. YOU put effort in creating food for more people. They may not have paid for it (btw, I'm not trying to say it's stealing) but it's not a "free lunch" since someone worked to put that amount of food "on the table".

    The whole philosophy of There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch is not about perspectives, it's about things "overall" speaking.

    Hence giving food away is not "a free lunch" much like stealing something isn't.

  2. Re:Why are consumers surprised? by aichpvee · · Score: 0, Troll
    free lunch
    n. Slang.

    Something acquired without due effort or without cost.
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    free lunch

    Something acquired without due effort or cost. For example, In politics there is no free lunch; every favor calls for repayment. This expression alludes to the custom of taverns offering food free of charge to induce customers to buy drinks. It was soon extended to other kinds of gift but is often used in a negative way, as in the example. [First half of 1800s]

    http://www.answers.com/free+lunch&r=67

    You're wrong. Now please stfu. You've trolled enough on the topic.
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  3. Re:Why are consumers surprised? by Seiruu · · Score: 0, Troll
    Are you talking to me? You've only enforced my point...

    TANSTAAFL means that a person or a society cannot get something for nothing. Even if something appears to be free, there is always a cost to the person or to society as a whole even though that cost may be hidden or distributed. For example, you may get free food at a bar during "happy hour", but the bar-owner must recover that marketing expense somehow, perhaps by charging slightly more for drinks or other food, and even if you personally never buy those drinks or that other food, someone else has to or the bar will go out of business.

    It is thought that TANSTAAFL may not always hold at the individual level, depending on the interpretation of the phrase; for example, some may argue that mothers often provide their children with lunch at no cost. But that food still had to be produced by someone somewhere, so even though the cost isn't paid by the children themselves, it is still paid by someone.