Paul Marangoni wrote:You asked for examples of their ethical behavior, did you not? Copyright is only one of their chosen transgressions. It just happens to be the most damaging as far as I'm concerned.
I'm not sure why I even need to explain it. They make it easy for anyone to share artistic creations, whether they have the right to do it or not (and anonymously), and then they force the creator to police their own creation, and make it as difficult as possible (if not impossible) for them to go after the infringing party for reparations, or to have the art in question removed from search results.
AND NO ONE HAS BEEN DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT! Maybe things will change, but I somehow doubt it.
Every video sharing website does this.
The reason no one can do anything about it is because of the volume of uploads to services like these... I bet you they can barely keep up with the technical demand in regards to the hardware required perpetuate an infinitely growing mass of media.
Look it, I'm not trying to get into an argument over the evils of Google.
I was just trying to see how your argument relates to this thread, so let's get back to it.
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Although I think people are abusing YouTube, I know that it would be near impossible to really police all the videos on there without gigantic leaps in video and audio recognition algorithms or them hiring like 15,000 more employees.
YouTube states that they have:
100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute
That translates into 18,000 8 hour shifts a day.