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YouTube AntiPiracy Policy Likened to 'Mafia Shakedown'
A C|Net article discusses reactions to YouTube's newly proposed antipiracy software policy. The company is now offering assistance for IP holders, allowing them to keep track of their content on the YouTube service ... if they sign up with the company for licensing agreements. A spokesman for Viacom (already in a fight with YouTube to take down numerous video clips) called this policy 'unacceptable', and another industry analyst likened it to a 'mafia shakedown.' YouTubes cites the challenges of determining ownership of a given video clip as the reason for this policy, and hopes that IP owners will cooperate in resolving these issues. Some onlookers also feel that these protestations are simply saber-rattling before an eventual deal: "'The debates are about negotiations more than anything else--who's going to pay whom and how much,' said Saul Berman, IBM's global media and entertainment strategy leader."
Maybe _THEY_ planned this with HIV/AIDS too, but somebody in QA fucked up.
You do know that corporations pay taxes, right? And to top that off, they are owned by people, who pay taxes. Of course, the enforcement of rights has nothing to do with paying taxes. The police will still help protect you if your stuff is stolen even if you have owed very little or no taxes. That's the way it should be. Everyone certianly does not pay for their own enforcement any more directly than corporations do.
As to your sig -- atheism has nothing at all to do with eugenics.
Because if someone doesn't believe in a god, they clearly support the selective breeding of humans. Wtf?