I have blogged about this subject a few times before. It is the shear impossibility of protecting Copyright on YouTube. With a short browse you will find a vast collection of material that has been illegally uploaded. There are entire seasons of Lost, whole episodes of Star Trek, music videos, film clips... even the entire Jurassic Park film was once on there running at over 2 hours!
YouTube will eventually remove any offending material if informed by the Copyright owners. But it is a fruitless task. There are Millions of users using YouTube each day and at least one of them will re-upload the deleted material very quickly.
This costs the Copyright owners dearly in lost Sales and Revenue. So what's Monty Python's answer to all this?
An Interesting idea, but I don't think it's going to work. Revenue created by clicking on links and buying Monty Python DVD's after seeing the clips? Surely people are just going to download the YouTube Material directly from the Monty Python Channel and burn it direct to DVD aren't they?
Maybe I'm missing something. Monty Python seem to have made their problem worse. Now users have access to their back catalog in High Definition for free. I'm not sure how this is going to generate more money, but I look forward to watching this Channel often. Monty Python are the greatest!
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