youtube blog

i am in the aj library right now and its raining, and that has nothing to do with the post.
i feel a need to mention that the articles attached to the questions are very long, though i still finished reading it!
regarding the 2 questions given as gp topic, i didnt like either but the first one comes closest to what i wanted to blog about, so first question it is
“YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?
by the way, i may do the second question too as youtube is a great role model to starting up a business later.
i did my research as the articles reminds me of what i had read in wikipedia regarding Thepiratebay but unfortunately the school computers blocked my access to the website http://thepiratebay.org/ with the following reason:
Forbidden.
You were denied access because:
Access denied by BlueCoat WebFilter content category. The requested URL belongs to the following category: Criminal Skills
(woah, criminal skills, i think i shall try to visit at home, maybe through a proxy server)
anyway, the reason i want to go to this website is that there is an interesting if not cheeky letter reply by the piratebay to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
the content is more or less about the piratebay denying all responsibility to monitor the contents of the bittorrent they provided access to regardless of whether the contents are copyrighted on the argument that they are merely the middleman, just providing access to the files and not actually hosting it. they however still will comply with MPAA demand to remove certain materials that are copyrighted. this effectively means that they wanted MPAA to sift through the millions of files provided access to by the piratebay which MPAA argued is impossible, which this reason is exactly what piratebay used to counter back. so it goes on arguing who should have responsibility to monitor the contents. MPAA says its piratebay who caused this problem at first while piratebay says the only one who have problems with this is MPAA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America
so this incident is similiar to Viacom and Google dispute (by the way, piratebay seems to have lost, so things arent looking good for Google based on this case-study)
linking back to the question, the ethics in question would be whether Youtube should defend the copyright law and remove copyrighted materials in its servers completely instead of ignoring the law and earn revenue from the visiting of copyrighted materials by millions of users, in turn costing the actors, producers and people associated with the show industry their revenue.
i do not agree that Youtube is an unethical business as can be seen by how active Youtube remove contents like child pornography.
Youtube is mostly police by its users and a small part by the employees due to the sheer number of videos contained within their servers, it is near impossible for their employees to monitor the contents by themselves
-to be continued (i am tired and hungry, i shall continue at home)
well, i am back, had tom yam instant noodle just now, spicy.
may i appeal to whoever bothered to read this blog to post comments, especially teachers. (just a 'hi, nice blog','i like the way you type this, uniquely me style' or 'this is a fabulous post' only compliments are accepted, sarcasm shall be deleted
Youtube is quite different from most other businesses as they uses a 'free labour' phenonmen that is people will do things for good of something if they like it. In this case, they like Youtube and will help to maintain the integerity of Youtube by helping to flag offensive or unsuitable content to be removed. However, sad to say, people like free stuff, thats why they visit Youtube as its free to view, they would not dislike copyrighted contents posted free, thus only certain individuals like copyright activist or a absolute moral uprightist would be flagging the illegal copyrighted contents.
With the drastic decrease in free labour to remove copyrighted contents, Youtube cannot react fast and remove such contents faster then they are put up, thus this explains the persistence of the videos on Youtube. However, Youtube have been trying hard to remove the illegal contents as seen in the sudden disappearance of many videos recently. Therefore, it is not due to lack of policing, defending copyright laws on part of Youtube that causes copyrighted materials to remain within public access, rather it is due to the format of Youtube that have open access to users that makes it near impossible to fully comply by copyright laws, thus Youtube is not without ethics but its hard to uphold the ethics in its totality.