THE END OF YOUTUBE

[scarycatsscaringcats]

before all of this happened... what is viacom???

[iTellYouNoLie]

youtube #WIN

[ThaAwesomeness]

Viacom should die, fall in a hole, and die.

[DontLaffAtMyName]

Viacock will never win. Section 107 of the copyright act of 1976 states for "fair use" of content. I.e. We CAN have clips from their shows and they can never do anything about it. Ever.

[toaoflifeandshadow]

we can stop this by spreading the word and stop vaicom

[greencatmusic]

Here comes the censorship through the back door

[Tyco200]

Youtube is doomed. Doomed. "youtube team" = bullsh*t. They have destroyed this site.

[repfreedomforce]

Kittens or Mafia? Is the mafia decentralized? The videos are not posted by youtube, but youtubers, as it should be. YouTube had proved that they will remove anything that anyone complains about, so your argument is debunked idiot.

[SharkDude1]

Screw Viacom! If you look up the word 'Viacom" in the dictionary, it should read "Greedy, Very Very Greedy. Scum of the earth Greedy." YouTube can't control EVERY Video uploaded to see if it's one of Viacoms or not, or a copyrighted one. As im typing this, a few thousand videos have just been uploaded..so should Youtube NOT post them until they review them? Hell NO!!

[shakeystevensVIII]

Jesus, what have they done to this website? The "Youtube team" are either very incompetent or completely corrupt, but more likely they're a bit of both.

[diah4]

campbell reminds me of kathryn Mcfee from american idol.

[a7green]

....... YT died a long time ago.

[designerofdreams70]

Maybe if they weren't Obama's sock puppets they could retain their audience and not try to destroy Youtube to keep the public from expressing themselves. Go to Hell CNN and Viacom.

[Tessmage]

Support The Pirate Bay. Support torrents and magnet links. Fight against forced consumerism. Support the free exchange of information on the internet... regardless of what type of information it is. Power to the people.

And a big slap in the face to the greedy media moguls, who rake in billions of dollars by force-feeding you a never-ending stream of disinformation and formulaic mediocrity. Hit them where it hurts them the most: in their wallets -- and in their pride.

[seyoumeye]

I am glad there is someone who knows the lies and the dirty politics behind the government mass media TV...though we are seeing their end..internet is changing mankind toward uniting the different cultures meanwhile exposing the real parasites of this planet...the shareholders must be neutralised...so plz turn off your TVs...and surf the web

[aimeechrister]

Fuck Viacom.

Fuck Google.

Corporations like this can kiss my American ass. The only place the heads of these corporations belong is in jail along with the rest of the corrupt thugs we have in government, wall street, and media.

[peterlows]

Nothen more than ..GREED !

[cheeckybutnice]

the real reason they want youtube shut down is not because of copyright its more to do with the fact that people do not wan to watch controled media & cotroled music & they are losing money.

Universial music group has filed copyright on youtube then I noticed that they have a youtube acount & they are selecting artists what they want everyone to listen to, so can you imagine what artits they want us to listen to on TV

watch Steven Jacobson Mind control Neuro-linguistic programming

[joeystockdale]

These people need a life so desperately bad! and now I will get on with my own.

[PlebRule]

Time for the PEOPLE TO SEIZE STATE POWER.

Ever since TV, a swindle has been afoot. The American people were NEVER PAID for the air waves. Nor have they ever been paid for the ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF TECHNOLOGY they fund through vessels like the military, NASA, Dept. of Energy, etc. which are then simply HANDED OVER to industry for capitalist exploitation.

It didn't start with the "BAIL-OUTS" folks - this kind of capitalist THEFT from the PUBLIC PURSE is generational.

YOU PAID FOR THE 'NET!

[faething]

What would the news do if YouTube shut down since YT is one of the major places that news sources seem to be getting their topics?

Viacom may as well try to shut down the Internet because so MANY people are using screen shots and video/sound clips from shows and musicians. The best any site can do is remove the material when copyright infringement is reported.

[RenzoColameo]

Free web, and Google-Youtube !!!

Democracy & Power to the People.!!!

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[chan0chap]

fuck your laws bitch

[revbian]

wow, these people really have nothing better to do, do they?

[Th2EyA0rEa1MoN2gUs]

CNN is a hugh pile of doughe bags!!!!!!

[elhayya]

whatever they need to leave yt alone...theyre just angry b/c ppl dont watch tv anymore

[hstone39]

The new world order think we're stupid.

NAPSTER IS A SOFTWARE!!!!

YOUTUBE IS A WEBSITE!!!

TWO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES!!!!

[hstone39]

It's impossible for youtube to lose and end up like napster. Napster never had original content. Thats why Napster lost.....

Youtube is hurt the new world order real bad, they can't do anything without a youtube video exposing what they are doing.

Thats why the media is trying to play youtube off with napster. They don't even realize that youtube is not in the same category as napster. Youtube is more like myspace or facebook but with videos....

Nice try new world order.

[hstone39]

Viacom did upload their own videos on youtube. The reason why they want to shut down youtube because everything goes viral when the new world order does something. As for youtube ending up like napster, youtube will win that part of the case because 80% of the videos on youtube is original content and youtube even tell users that they can only load original content unless the users have permission to do so.

[whoo689]

It may not seem 'fair' if someone uses your content for their videos and/or profits, but life ain't fair. deal with it. If it was out there in the public domain to begin with, I don't care. That may seem like a very uncaring view of markets, but a free-for-all in ideas and IP will promote the most progress in the long run. It's a total myth to say that patents and copyrights BY DEFAULT encourage innovation. It's really more of an industry case-by-case basis.

[whoo689]

The biggest reason people give 2 shits about copyrights is the amount of profit they COULD make off of these products. Other reasons are mostly superficial and shallow, and the effects are hard to measure.

[whoo689]

It's funny. Most people would say competition is preferable to monopoly when businesses are using OTHER people's former property they bought. But people shy away from that view suddenly when it comes to INDIVIDUALs' 'property of the mind'. They treat ideas as some kind of sacred cow. I'm sick of it. If someone wants to use my videos for their videos and make a compilation of vids, fine by me! Why should I fucking care? I'll manage.

[whoo689]

'Intellectual' property is not true property. Property is something earned or bought in a voluntary transaction with other human beings. IP does neither of those. I mean, why shouldn't competition exist in intellectual property markets just as with every other market? Why should they have some kind of protectionism? That's really what it is. You can fancy it up in nice-sounding terms like "intellectual property", but it's protectionism and monopoly.

[whoo689]

Sure, some may bitch that I "Used someone else's content without their permission", but once you put your content in the public domain, far as I'm concerned, all bets are off. That's one free market I think we can all get behind. If you didn't want your content to be used in part by someone else for THEIR new and original content, don't put it out there. Simple as that. "Intellectual property" is a bunk concept.

[whoo689]

I have to put up with shitty-named TNA superstars because wwe and wcw and ecw veterans can't use the names that made them famous there. I have to put up with shitty TNA superstar theme songs b/c wwe has the rights to all their former songs. It's madness! It INFRINGES on creativity. Who cares if I use some video someone else made as part of a larger video with various bits and pieces? That new video is MINE! I made it, not someone else. It's my creation. So why shouldn't it be mine legally?

[whoo689]

"criminal enterprise" LOL. If that's not hyperbole, I don't know what is. Yes... a site dedicated to expanding access to popular and awesome videos online and allowing folks to share their own content is a "criminal enterprise"... bent on WHAT? "copyright infringement"?

I'm so sick of copyrights. All they do is get in the way of progress. There may be a legit purpose for some patent protections, although even those have problems, but copyright monopolies are insane.

[whoo689]

I wonder how many actual Viacom employees DON'T support this insidious plan to "de-napsterize" Youtube? Probably a lot. It's mainly the executives doing this kind of bullshit, them and whatever lawyers they can find to represent them for big bucks.

[whoo689]

Viacom is evil. This is just about having monopoly access to their content and profits. They're afraid to 'lose profits' b/c some dweebs here and there upload a few of their vids everyday. big deal! You're a multibillion-dollar franchise! You own so many fucking tv channels! What do you have to be scared of/concerned about? You're not even close to bankruptcy or going out of business.

Motherfuckers...

[armyveteran101st]

Solution= YouTube starts charging a nominal monthly fee, the proceeds of which it can then use to pay Viacom for exposure of Viacom-owned material. I wouldn't really mind paying YouTube $5 or $10 per month in order to be able to keep using the site. That would probably do away with all the problems caused by violation of copyright infringement laws, as a payment is being made in order to use copyrighted material. I know many will shit a brick when they read this, but we got to face reality.

[PanZheXin]

1. This whole case is about dollars. Viacom is just getting greedy. If the stats are right Viacom is making $13.6 billion.

2. This so called legal expert did not take into consideration fair use doctrine. They always use the excuse of losing money.

3. The template of youtube allows freedom of speech more rather than just watching a talking head on CNN do the talking.

If Viacom goes the way of News Corp of complaining they can go to hell.. Youtube is the future, adapt CNN or go out of busines

[Charmer4856]

The gurl with the glasses looks like a nerrrrddd...a cute one tho

[FlashWeiner]

Mr. legal analyst is a schmuck. YouTube just started monitoring content because of this case? Who told him that? Regular users know better than that.

YouTube seems to have firm rules regarding removing content & channels flagged for copyright infringement.

Viacom needs to STFU and stop being babies.

[Chompeto]

viacom is always bitching

[BabybooR33]

the people own youtube... everything else can FUCK OFF!!!

[xxashyy]

Viacom is trying to make this about YouTube. But it's really about the internet. There bitching about Viacom videos that anyone can find on the net without YT.

[iTellYouNoLie]

I beat a viacom DMCA claim on some southpark

watch?v=_gqwSz11Dw4

they disabled embedding though.

FAIR USE BITCHES

>:P

[hippieCy08]

I find it absurd that a lawyer/Toobin who works for Vicom who owns CNN, Comedy Channel among others would 'comment' objective legality on what youtube does.

Its bs.....esp. since youtube never allows any of Stewart and Colbert videos and deletes account bc of it.

[hippieCy08]

I find it absurd and comical that a lawyer...aka Toobin who works for Viacom who owns CNN, Comedy Channel among others would 'comment' the objective legality on what youtube does.

Its bs.....esp. since youtube never allows any of Stewart and Colbert videos and deletes account bc of it.

[medallish]

No way, Google is way to big, Viacom is just desperate because of Googles latest announcement.

[coddlinghimmler]

aways about the dollar never the public FUCK corporate america you have enough FUCKING money let us have ONE WTF

[olof790217]

Its going to be the end of youtube if they dont fix the View all comments feature.

[halcyon0830]

Now that is the truth. Youtube has made a horrible decision by changing its comments section just so important comments cannot be read easily.

[demented669]

google internet 2, soon the net will be TV 2.0

[kbr247]

internet 2 is even worst you will learn later why

[andid]

the net is too decentralized. if anyone attempts to make it tv 2.0 that system will ultimately fail just like TV has.

[Garlannd]

youtube is shit but fuck viacom they're trying to tame the internet.

[iAMr3VOLution1]

im thinking this could be a way further suppress the spread of information on youtube.

[restlys]

the girl is kinda dumb...if a clip aint on youtube im not looking for it on the official site.

[grnbbllntrck]

go youtube!!!! leave us be!

[11NACTX11]

Youtube=Mofia

oh yeah.... Viacom did put vids on here I remember them...

[ActsOfFreedom]

Some companies have figured this out. Others- stupeedos.

People want easy access to information.

They will bear with a small amount of ads.

Dear Stupeedo Companies:

Put your own information, music, or entertainment in the forums where people ARE and they won't have to resort to piracy to get to it.

YouTube is like a Mall.

And most companies are OUT OF TOWN.

[karlsantos]

Naby record companies have their own Youtube channels, so do many comedians and artists.

The Monty Python, of 400 years of activity, adapted to it by adopting it.

Adapt or die.

[magicfanatic1]

Didn't Katie once post a video of herself blowing a dog?

[xxEROxxSENNINxx]

bah! frak viacom.

[thunderwoman]

These ppl are lame.  Youtube is a mafia? bitch please...

[no2facism]

Good upload.

[RibbitAfterMe]

Dog eat dog.

[TheElefaunt]

also the one of the reasons it's obvious

we don't live in a informed public,

is because the consumer doesn't realise his/her power,

capitlism wouldn't be so bad if the consumer reached his/her potential by in this case boycotting everything viacom has to offer would shut down this case.

[TheElefaunt]

they won't beat google,

let alone a product that people feel is

a right to share information with each other

you can't have a democracy without an informed public

which we don't completly seem to have thus no democracy,

but youtube has put an huge dent in the lack of an informed public

thus it is almost a right for citzens to have youtube in this day and age not only that so many people make money with there how to videos and small business can advertise,

thus you have that case Google will win

[chad00023]

just try to upload some copyrighted content just try

[mycatisamoron]

I've seen loads of music on youtube and then gone out and bought them in a store or on amazon and would not have heard of them if they hadn't been on youtube. Youtube = free advertising. This is all just a load of bollocks.

[prayfortruejustice]

youtube posts such as the one your watching here must be stopped, Americans don't read and they don't have the time or ability to extract real information from the mainstream -- so Youtube educates them and lets them understand issues. Issues that the politicians and corporations don't want you to know about. This is more than a fight for property rights and advertising dollars -- this is a fight for intellectual distribution rights.

[TheProphaze]

YouTube won't be taken down. 100% certain.

[callouschristian]

See how greed wrecks the world? Give me a break. Youtube is free advertising for these greedy crappers that aren't worth the paper on which they're printed. Sue? They should be sued out of business!!

[baronderothchild]

i hope google fucks viacom's face. hard.

[fardavari]

U2b

[TheHigherVoltage]

Just another attack on free speech and the sharing of people's uncensored ideas. Sure both Viacom and Google are both controlled (primary shareholder) hedge fund groups, but we can't talk about that.

Go back to sleep everyone. Theocracy is almost here.

[eyecansee9]

Essentially like the mafia? A crimanal enterprise dedicated to breaking the law most of the time? That guy's a d-bag.

[ward7921]

BULLLLLSHIT!

[fazholio]

Bullocks....they want to remove youtube because it is a threat to the new world order....twats! Fuck you

[savior02]

im not surprised the Communist News Network is reporting this these commys cant stand freedom of speech on the internet

[FixedNewsChannel]

CNN talk about the false DMCA's that people suffer on a daily basis that are ILLEGAL!

[FixedNewsChannel]

Viacom did do this. They "messed up" a few videos to make it look pirated, then uploaded them to YouTube. These idiots just want to take the little guy to court for thousands of dollars per song.

[alecaf89]

Fuck Viacom. There should be a boycott on all Viacom channels.

[awhodatt]

interesting case.

personally, in a way i hope that viacom wins - youtube has far too much crap on it today.

i much preferred things in the beginning where it was mostly content uploaded by actual viewers for debate, perspectives and overall cultural exchange.

today it is filled with ads, music videos and shitty "youtube stars"?!

[EndTimeProphecy2010]

Go ahead and close youtube we will use another site.Can't close them all down.

[pascal77d]

1:30 YouTube is like the mafia. You heard it on CNN first.

Oh my...

[ebbixx]

This presentation entirely ignores the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA. What a waste of words. Then again, consider the source.

[im1greatman]

Viacom & Youtube are both terrible.

[GTS4tw]

They can't even spell "Feud" on CNN.......wow.

[nogl0001]

boring. they are all dbags.

[DaeMaWong]

this is like blaming guns for people killing people. greedy cnn goes after youtube. i hope youtube can go after cnn. that would be fun. ;)

[Finalfreedom7]

Campbell brown: Terror! terror! horror! fear! nightmare! death! terror! ( smiling ) back you Brian :)

[GorgonLuvs8008135]

Once you become a popular partner you get and automatic 5 stars and get on every bodies home page no matter what kind of useless garbage you spew out. Just check out the most popular always sxePhil, shaytards, ctfxc, raywilliam, and shane. I the advantages that these users get places them at the top crowding out newcomers with real talent.

These users are even allowed to break the rules. Look at anything from sxePhil and think should it be flagged - misleading thumbnail.

[ewigkase1]

killing you-tube? viacum is that would not not not be a good idea!

[GorgonLuvs8008135]

Except for the comments, I can get the content elsewhere. I'd like to see another site as popular as you tube to offer some real competition because yt are bullies when they want to be. Even MoxNews has experienced that.

[stevenaudet]

Damn fool, I don't give a damn fuck about a cat playing piano!

[johnqpublic81]

The chick with glasses is really hot. Maybe CNN has learned from Fox that sexy women sell news.

[AlvaroAndfriends]

Leave youtube alone you fuckers its the only place i go every single day to learn and enjoy a whole lot of things.

CNN you fucked everything up by making this shit big news.

FUCK YOU GOOGLE!!!!!

[Steadno]

you tube doesnt steal anything people upload and it is the host

[PhillyWargamer]

What ever happened to Fair use?

[asant79]

The more time passes, the more technology makes copyright laws obsolete. Instead of finding a way to make everything sharable with flat fees to the owners, they would rather preserve these stupid copyright and royalty laws.

Technology makes laws obsolete.

[sollycardy98]

I hate that arsehole Jeffery, defending the big corporations. If viacon are uploading videos onto youtube in the first place to get publicity they are massive hypocrites.

[aSuperbadassninja]

lol! is it essentially like the mafia? i think he just insulted the mob

[Organjic]

Viacom has every right but it's really bad marketing. We should have free use. Blame this shit on the government for corporatism in this censorship game.

[RadarKat73080]

Viacom, aren't you too busy burning books?

[Firebirrd85]

viacom is a bunch of greedy fucks, wah wah wah, stop uploading our videos, cry babies

[matsutakneatche]

was that sarah palins even dumber sister?

[xfsshadow]

Leave Youtube Alone!

[lurkerhermit]

Jews

[MrMemag]

We are all terrorists here.

Hope they don't get a cent for this free advertisement of CNN and bullshit.

[SaveOurSovereignty3]

what a bunch of idiots, yeah try uploading some daily show clips and colbert clips and see what happens to your channel.

These three are a bunch of idiots, YT aint going any where and viacom are some greedy pricks,

i will go else where if yt were to go down, its no big deal

[VJjosesanchez]

you can close youtube, but there thousands of webs providing the same service, good luck in the court youtube CEO's.

we support you!

[bigc028282]

How much of this has to do with "internet2"?

[dodododa]

Ironic I'm watching this on Youtube.

[Betillo555]

Copyright is holding back our culture... greedy bastards!

[BeantownJim]

bye bye youtube!

[therhythmicmenace]

They basically want to see the end of the citizen reporter.

[FantasmaBAnco]

Jesus tap-dancing Christ... a Mafia-like organisation? Ridiculous.

[GrandArchitect3D]

YouTube is a threat to our democracy. Without it Obama would be able to lie much easier

[cheeckybutnice]

the truth is youtube is very powerful. record companies have less control , politicians get exposed. people power !

[EssiacHempLaetrile]

The Colbert Report? ... everybody knows that the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson is the best!

[benfaysal23]

I know why they want to shut it down, bc it's the only place where it's still possible for people to find real news (truth). Fuck censorship.

[DominoChild]

the hell is viacom?

[superfuzz]

lol did he just compare them to the mafia?

[scottishbadboytracks]

It was only a matter of time before this happened

[midwestcharm]

This is just another way "they' want to stop and control dissent. Youtube has the ability to expose losers like John McCain and Obama and they hate it.

[fistfullofhope]

yep.

[RevolutionNewz]

fuck msm !!!!!!

fight tyranny and the NWO!!!!

[jerseybing]

like the "mafia"...lol...this is bullshit...leave Britney,ah, i mean YouTube alone...wah-wah-wah

[AnotherBrotherMark]

not spam

[AimiriZ]

hmm,

which one do i hate more?

[AnotherBrotherMark]

boost comment

[maddoxfanx]

> Comparing Youtube to Mafia

Wow, what a fucking prude.

[StillAware]

haha as we watch this video on YouTube.

[LifeIsGood63]

Comedy central has a problem? They release thier biggest stars on youtube! Jefdf Dunham used this medium to launch his career.

[ejbh3160]

/watch?v=nqf29Otp-_0

[themooddisorders]

Make your own f'ing videos people!

[HeatLegs]

Leave youtube aloooone! She never did anything to youuuuuuu!

[dsxmachina]

"fued"? lol

[manilaenglish]

Long live Youtube!

[themooddisorders]

I do not buy it.... guys like me give it for free....if someone promotes it on youtube, I win! Lots of folks like me cant make good videos for songs.... youtube would only die if it involved a sellout involving Billions of dollars! Mark it down!

[HolyCity2012]

What do you mean by "mark it down"?

[arkivx1]

People like Mox are the reason behind this, does he have the copyright holders permission to post all these videos?

[ShadowSandy]

@arkivx1 Fair Use laws permit the use of these types of "clips" for educational purposes.

[myrelative]

no.

[texas224]

@ arkivx1

So your coming here to preach us how you are Mr Saint guy, never downloaded a torrent or a 3rd party software in your life? What a joke.

[unclewooly]

@arkivx1 It's public domain stupid he doent need it. It's aired on unpaid recievers. Do your homework.

[arkivx1]

@arkivx1 tell it to the judge lol,

[sidplicity]

If Mox is at fault and it disturbs you, interesting your watching and posting a comment.

[OnlineIntifada]

Mox doesn't need their permission. Fair use.

[DominoChild]

yeah thats a good question

[KateAnneNYC]

There is Fair Use, especially for the short stuff -- he didn't download the whole show, just a snippet to make a point. He went through this in his CSpanJunkie days and he worked with CSpan for a while but in the end, they changed their mind. There's a happy medium that needs to be found.

[11NACTX11]

@arkivx1 It's called "Fair Use" as long as no money is being made it's legal in the court of law for certain pieces, I don't know all of the details tho. It's a long piece of legislation loop hole.

[arkivx1]

@11NACTX11 tell it to the judge lol.

[OmarThePug]

Viacom = crap

Youtube = sewer

[usercorrupt]

OmarThePug = pinworm

[valgehiir]

Cambell, stupid, boring Cambell

[NitroEthiopian]

Leave youtube alone!

[blt40]

test

[blt40]

could be