PiLfan said:
They'll either be removed eventually (your guess is as good as mine as to when)....or they could remain but youtube would morph into a pay-per-view site not unlike what napster has become. Depends on which way google wants to take it.
What happens with the ss clips doesn't concern me as much now with the DVD coming out, and hope for more in the future.
Well... You See, I'm more p.o'd about Kinnikuman being pulled as it is hugely unpopular here, and only a small few like it. Of course, the Brockenman/ Ramenman fight scene would have been an internet sensation if google didn't whore to the "look at how much money we're worried about potentially sort of losing...maybe" corporations.
I should have had a feeling that video clips were going down, ala music downloads, as whiney media conglomerates p' and moan about how no one's going to overpriced movies and buying overpriced popcorn when about 100 hackers will easily download fine works of cinema like "Employee of the Month" or "Saw 6: If you have seen more than one of these, you qualify for mental help." Plus, no one's watching crappy TV shows since 80% of them are the dang same.
It HAS become like napster already. It had the power to bring people new ideas and stuff the media wouldn't buy into (i.e. indie rock bands). But then, they got cranky because no one was buying up overpriced junk CD's of crappy factory made "Shake your fill in the Blank" dance bubble gum Hip hop. And the slow obsolecence thing.
TV? Movie companies sink large amounts of money into lame TV shows, and then complain, "We made 'The Class' As unfunny and formulaic as possible! How can people possibly be not watching?" Then pounce on Copywrites they neglected or don't even care about for years.
You tube will gradually turn into "America's Funniest Home Videos" the website, no thanks to Google buying it up, making it main stream. The original owners would have at least protested it more.
All and all, this shows how REDICULOUS copywrite is, helping out only those who are rich enough to buy up things because they are too uncreative to do anything good for society. Not to mention how shiftless businessmen, with our politicians in their pockets, want to singlehandedly ruin the internet the way they ruined everything else no one likes anymore.