You Tuber's beware......What you R doing may end up on there!
I beilieve that people documenting and posting events that happened all over the world is something that is apart of life when a new technology is introduced to the public. It means that anyone at anytime and at any place can record anything that is going on and post it for others to see. Just recently with the VT incident, a student recording things on his cell phone and the media got a hold of it to show viewers. The media wasn't there at the time when it happened, and if others where there and took video of an incident, I think it's ok. It's just crazy how many people log on to YouTube on a daily bases, I got my friend hooked on YouTube when I told him you could type up anything on there and you can watch a video for it. Like the Grossman article says, "The tool that makes this possible is the World Wide Web. Not the Web that Tim Berners-Lee hacked together (15 years ago, according to Wikipedia) as a way for scientists to share research. It's not even the overhyped dotcom Web of the late 1990s. The new Web is a very different thing. It's a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter. Silicon Valley consultants call it Web 2.0, as if it were a new version of some old software. But it's really a revolution. (Grossman, 1).
I think sharing clips of old tv shows and other shows is ok. It's media, it's supposed to be seen. I can see that people put money into the shows for you to watch on tv and it might be a form of stealing, however corporations are learning that there shows can be manipulated into another form of media for others to watch for free. They are paying attention to this and ABC, NBC, and others offer free full shows to watch online after they air, and even offer other things like behind the scences type of things as well, I think this is the way to go.
I think that music videos that are played before they air doesn't really hurt the music industry too much. MTV only plays music videos late at night or during TRL or something so I don't think it makes a big difference.
Linking this YouTube topic with what I read outside of the reading is from the following website, http://www.projectopus.com/node/5202...here is a little snipit from it, "Until lately, videos were always seen as a promotional tool for the song, and therefore the industry didn't see sharing of videos as any sort of threat. The viral aspect of videos was encouraged to help promote the sales of the songs themselves. Recently, though, the videos have found value, mostly proven with Apple selling digital music videos at $1.99 as part of the larger move which also includes TV shows. (Abbott, 1)