YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law

jam · Post by **jam** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:54 pm

Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned...

After beating around the bush, Viacom goes for the heart.

sRc · Post by **sRc** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:56 am

at last, the battle comes down to the DMCA itself

*gets out Final Boss music*

liger13 · Post by **liger13** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:17 pm

lol, this will be fun to see how it turns out... i hope youtube wins.

Spintz · Post by **Spintz** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 9:33 pm

I don't hope YouTube wins, I hope Viacom dies, dies a horrible death.

3ddev · Post by **3ddev** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:42 am

I hope YouTube wins.

Anteater · Post by **Anteater** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 12:19 pm

I hope youtube wins.
@The Anoconda: What final boss music did you have in mind? One Winged Angel would be nice.

BlindSide · Post by **BlindSide** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:37 pm

Anteater wrote:One Winged Angel

Dooodoododoooo Se-phi-roth!

I hope YouTube pwns ass.

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:46 pm

Youtube should win.
If youtube is Cloud and Viacom is Sephiroth.
*goes and watches Advent Children again*

Anteater · Post by **Anteater** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:57 pm

If Viacom is Sephiroth then... Viacom will... Never be a memory!

One other thing: Viacom is Sephiroth, and Youtube is Cloud, then, who's Aeris?

jam · Post by **jam** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:27 am

Viacom vs. Google: Who's The Daddy?

The key question in the Viacom v. GooTube war is who-needs-whom more? The best way to answer this question is to study the percentage of "views" on YouTube that consist of Viacom (and other big media) content. If the percentage is low, Viacom's hardball tactics will fail. If the percentage is high, Google will probably have to make some major concessions.

Importantly, the critical fact here is not the percentage of clips posted, but the percentage of clips viewed. If Big Media content accounts for only 5% of the clips, but 95% of the views, then Google will need to have its attitude adjusted.

Virion · Post by **Virion** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:49 am

Anteater wrote:If Viacom is Sephiroth then... Viacom will... Never be a memory!

One other thing: Viacom is Sephiroth, and Youtube is Cloud, then, who's Aeris?

Irrlicht is Aeris lol

monkeycracks · Post by **monkeycracks** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:15 pm

::lol::
I'd say that Google is Aeris.
Since Google(Aeris) is Over Youtube(Cloud) and helping against Viacom(Sephiroth).

Nodtveidt · Post by **Nodtveidt** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:55 pm

I vote for One Fallen Angel as the final boss music!

(For those who don't know, this was the final boss music for The King Of Fighters '99)

Anteater · Post by **Anteater** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 11:34 pm

Some other good final boos songs:
Dancing Mad (Final boss music from FFVI)
BGM from the final level of Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skys
Final boss music from Chrono Cross
Final boss music from Final Fantasy IX
Final boss music from Sonic 3 & Knuckles
Final boss music from Medal of Honor: Frontline

Those are just a couple I can think of. The two best are One Winged Angel and Dancing Mad.

Nodtveidt · Post by **Nodtveidt** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:10 am

I was going to suggest Dancing Mad but both One Fallen Angel and A One Winged Angel are better tracks.

Although ironically...when I saw the thing about "final boss music", I immediately thought of Kefka...