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Unofficial Answers: Why Does YouTube Seem So Biased? (vortex.com)
Lauren Weinstein writes with some insight on an frustrating aspect of YouTube's video hosting service: "Why does Google's YouTube seem so biased against ordinary users who upload videos? I've unfairly had my videos blocked, received copyright strikes for my own materials, and even had my account suspended — and it's impossible to reach anyone at YouTube to complain!" No, YouTube isn't biased against you — not voluntarily, anyway. But it could definitely be argued that the copyright legal landscape — particularly in the mainstream entertainment industry — is indeed biased against the "little guys," and Google's YouTube must obey the laws as written. What's more, YouTube exists at the "bleeding edge" of the intersection of technology and law, where there's oh so much that goes bump in the night ...
empowering the little guys, the voiceless, and letting unpopular messages be heard just as loudly as the mainstream ones.
So says the AC ;-)
If you post as Anonymous Coward, don't expect a reply.
The signal-to-noise ratio may not be that great, but there's plenty of good content on there. Once you find channels that you like, and subscribe to them, all the noise just passes you by as if it didn't exist.
Oh no... it's the future.
You could set up ACTube, and be the gatekeeper of your website like they're the gatekeeper of theirs. YouTube isn't a public utility. It's a for-profit business that will make decisions that they believe to be in their best interest.
That's probably a bit off topic, considering it is actual copyright violation. "But other people break the law worse" isn't really a valid complaint there. Make your own thing.
A lot of it boils down to the rise of heavily asymmetric connectivity combined with "no servers" clauses in many ISP contracts.
That kind of killed the whole distributed nature of things...
Oh yeah, guess who are involved heavily in the last-mile service market? Cable companies.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
Don't worry, the new free trade agreements coming on line were partially written by the content holders and loopholes like safe harbour provisions will go away in the name of harmonization
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
This is a prime example of why I am skeptical when people complain about getting unfair copyright notices on Youtube. There are a lot of individuals out there that don't have a clue how the various IP laws work yet think they're experts.
I'm not saying that Youtube is perfect. I've seen some actual abuses and false claims made but for every legitimate complaint I see a hundred instances where someone did something like mix their wedding footage with some Katy Perry songs, upload it to Youtube and then wonder why they got a copyright strike for their totally original material.
Why can't I do that, but other people post concert videos and even full albums, full music DVD rips, etc. and they don't get taken down?
If the guy driving ahead of you is over the speed limit on the highway and they don't get pulled over that doesn't mean it's suddenly ok for you to speed too.
Since when was the internet supposed to be "peer-to-peer, with all peers being equal"? It was NEVER designed or intended that way. Those words mean things, and I don't think they mean what you think they mean. You're confusing the Internet with a Lantastic network.
And on what planet do you think unpopular messages have ever been broadcast as loudly as mainstream ones, in any forum, at any time? If anything, setting up a personal blog and getting your voice heard is easier than its ever been in history. Even so, the freedom of speech the internet affords us means while you have a right to say what you want to say, no one is obliged to listen to you. If you were expecting the internet to be any different, than simply put, you were a massive fool for expecting the impossible.
Oh, and lighten up, Francis.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
No, it really wasn't. I was there. The internet was a smattering of academic, government, and large corporate sites which was generally only useful to other in similar fields, and certainly nothing which your average person could find or use. In fact, it was actually a rather exclusive club.
Do you know what it has now? Github. Stack Overflow. Wikipedia. Online API documentation, programmimg tutorials and example of nearly *everything*. Help forums for both end users and experts alike. Streaming audio and video. MMOs. Downloadable videogames. Awesome stuff that I use every day, both professionally and for entertainment purposes. Okay, it has Facebook, Comcast, and cyber-criminals as well, but you take the bad with the good.
Sorry, but this mythical "golden age of the Internet" was never there. It was really only even *close* to being true if you happened to be a university employee or student (grad student or higher) with direct access to the net through the major university backbones, and even then it was really only a promise of things to come. While I'm sure it was awesome having the internet more or less as a personal playground, I'll take the internet today, warts and all, a thousand times over.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.