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YouTube's Unspoken Linking Policy For Copyright Infringers
Hackajar writes "Valleywag has an interesting post detailing YouTube's new way to deal with copyrighted music videos, removing embed tags and linking it to the official content on site. What's significant here is the lack of video removal by YouTube staff. From the post, "Uploads of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading "Contains content from [insert studio here]"". They use a Modest Mouse music video from a third party to illustrate the new change."
A society is not oppressed when you don't' have the freedom to watch movies or listen to music. It is when you can be held indefinitely without any trial.
Living in Canada, I don't see any difference between US and Saudia in this regard.
So if it's wrong for the RIAA to take your money, why is okay for you to take their music. After all, you're not using the money. It's just sitting in the bank. Why don't you share it with them? Oh, it gets so confusing to me. As far as I can tell, it's okay to take things from big companies but not from little people. But if the big companies need to fire some little people, I don't know what to make of it all. Sigh. Luckily, I've got some Slashdotters to help me.