You Can’t Stop File Sharing, But You Can Kill Your Brand By Trying

Regal Cinemas prosecuted a 20-year-old women for recording 20-second of the movie Transformers on her cell phone to show to her brother. Jhannet Sejas, the girl who was arrested last month for recording a 20 second clip of “Transformers” in a local cinema pleaded guilty and agreed to pay a $71 fine. Regal Cinemas pressured the Arlington County prosecutor to charge Sejas, they wanted to make an example of her. Let’s leave the law out of this. It’s irrelevant... Read More »

YouTube Is Screwed?

What’s not clear about this copyright tool for YouTube is if it will effect the millions of infringed videos ALREADY sitting on their network? I’m very surprised this is coming so quickly. Frankly, I just don’t see how YouTube will be able to survive long term when you enforce this? There are too many videos out there that will NEED to be removed from the network. I’m going to guess here and say that over 50% of every video they have is infringing... Read More »

Nobody Wants To Steal, But Videos Are Better With Copywritten Content

I’m not sure why I’m fascinated with YouTube and the copyright situation. I guess I am one of the millions who… A. Completely understand why copyrights are important. B. Don’t want to “steal” anything from anyone, ever. C. Despite those facts, still think it’s stupid that I can’t use a song from Frank Sinatra from 1965 on a video clip I uploaded, etc… So let me quote Chris Rock when I sympathize with people like this who... Read More »

Thoughts On YouTube, The Beatles & Copyrights?

I made a discovery this morning. You can listen/watch a lot of copyrighted music on YouTube. I never realized this. Check it out, I just spent the last hour or so browsing videos from copyrighted video/songs from The Beatles. (Doesn’t Wacko Jacko own this stuff?) Love Me Do Can’t Buy My Love - From movie “A Hard Day’s Night” Personal favorite - I Am The Walrus Check out the profile for one of the biggest Beatles uploader named “Beatlz”.... Read More »

How To Download & Steal Raw YouTube Video Files In 3 Easy Steps

Yep, it’s pretty easy, and I’ll show you how below. But first know something. I think this is wrong, and I hope that it can be stopped. If you’re not fully aware of copyright issues, you should know that stealing content (video or otherwise) is an offense, and stealing someone’s video out of YouTube is probably going to get you sued quick. Don’t do it. Step 1 To Stealing YouTube Videos The first thing you do is visit a site called KissYouTube.com.... Read More »