On 12/25/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
Not true any more though since youtube has clamped down a bit and I've run across suggestions of a myspace cleanup although I don't know a vast amount about myspace. It remains to be seen what effect these actions have on the web community though.
Youtube's efforts seem pretty superficial, although there are rumors that they are making back-room deals with big media companies which allow them to avoid getting sued into the dirt yet fail to compensate any of the actual content creators (since they aren't actually licensing the works, they are just buying temporary promises not to sue).
Even if Youtube and all the other Web2.0 darlings did manage to clean up their acts, we'd still be the only major site committed to Free (like freedom) content rather than free (as in no cost to look at but touch at your own peril) content.
(Youtube doesn't ask or allow uploaders to release their work under a free license. Their upload page doesn't even include a strongly worded instruction not to upload infringing content, rather they just tell you that if you upload an infringement and they receive a takedown notice that they will follow the procedure)