Say goodbye to Youtube, say hello – again – to another age of illegal uploads and downloads.
If it all goes sideways, the people are the biggest losers, especially the smaller content producers and those who follow them. Fan videos, reaction videos, even those allegedly protected under fair use, will likely be eliminated or challenged.
I think it’s important for users to know, however, that it is the services themselves being directly penalised – not the users. So if you made a fan video of an Ed Sheeran song, you’re not going to be targeted, the service you uploaded it to is. I’ve seen too many posts coming out of Europe stating they’ll delete their blogs for fear of being sued over the content. No. Tumblr could be sued, not you (and that could mean the end of Tumblr).
This could get very ugly. Not that the Guardian or other UK papers give a shit. They keep burying it in their tech pages – if they discuss it at all. And US media isn’t covering it at all from what I’ve seen, so if you’re angry that US users aren’t discussing it or the UK even, it’s because no one really knows about it.
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