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[frogboy4]

YouTube's New Tacky Transparent Ad Experiment

Now it appears that YouTube is going to start enbedding transparent ads (kind of like a crawl...or what Fox does on its shows) at the bottom of selected clips. No word on how these clips will be selected.

My solution is this - when asked by company (like Disney) to remove a clip they own, why not respond with an opportunity to watermark or encode a crawl ad with a link at the bottom that can sell related merchandise? I know it's still tacky, but it's a good compromise for all.

It just might make too much sense.

 

[chequepoint]

Moving your stolen content to another site is not the answer.

People paid money to develop this content, when its on YouTube, youtube profits from that content. YouTube has nothing financially invested in the content, thus everybody sues YouTube.

It is up to the owners of the content to decide how, when, where, and if they want to distribute it. Not the fans.

You want DVD sets, what is the incentive for Disney or Henson to release them when you can already steal it for free online? "Hey, lets include this as a bonus feature on Muppet Show season 3" "No, its not worth the extra money, we won't get additional sales from it, people can already see it on YouTube".

NOW the real solution for Disney/Henson would be to assemble a website with all the content that they aren't going to release and rake in the advertising dollars themselves, while fueling the fan community and plugging their new releases. BUT that is never going to happen as long as the YouTube community is allowed to steal left and right. Thus Disney wants to secure their assets first, then attempt to do something with them. Makes sense to me.

 

[Drtooth]

Do you, um.... love evil corporations so much? Or did Warner Greedies pay you to say how great that them sitting on boxes and boxes of stuff they'll never use and not letting us, the fans who GIVE them the money and the power SHARe stuff that is NOT FOR PROFIT.

We're not STEALING. We're sharing. It's not like half this stuff is world wide available. Stealing is making bootlegg DVD's or products to make money off of someone else's idea. And companies Steal all the time. Ever hear of Coconut Fred's fruit salad Island? Shot for shot ripoff of Spongebob. And who do they sue? Some guy who puts some Beatles song to random clips.

So, to hades with these greedy incompetant corporate pigs. We want stuff we can't get legally in big box sets since no one thinks it's profitable, we should share them.