Google To World: Give YouTube Your Videos, NOW!
No wonder Google needs to build-out more and more “massively scalable” data centers across the planet: How else could it house all the world’s videos!
Once again, it is the Google way or the highway: This time, Google unveils “YouTube Video Identification,” a Google-centric run around claims of a copyright infringement facilitating YouTube.
Google has a conflicted message for the multi-billion dollar mainstream media companies that do not want their copyright content uploaded to YouTube: Upload it all to YouTube!
David King, YouTube product manager: “copyright owners will be required to give Google a copy of their content.”
YouTube hails its new “video matching” scheme as “unique” to Google. Not surprisingly, it presents as opaquely as the impenetrable AdSense blind acuction black Google-centric box: Engineers attempting to describe the system created a slide show with 50 pages of “differential equations.”
But will anything really be so differential about the multi-billion dollar copyyright infringement quagmire that is YouTube?
Google, as usual, is strengthening its own hand, not the position of copyright holders, who Google wants to be even more beholden to the mightly Google machine. Google claims “it is the best it can do,” and it is: The best for Google!
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