richardpor
Fur it up
join:2003-04-19
Portland, OR
| User Generated Media Utopia VS Reality
Both Broadband Reports and Techdirt misses what I fell is the lack of knowlege of ethics and philosophy concerning human nature. To put it bluntly we are not angles. We can be evil, selfish, self-center sobs. I have to roll my eyes ever time some wide eye euntrpenure announces the next big user generated thing that’s going to allow anybody to contribute and will bring the world closer and we will have world peace and will be virtually holding hands singing Kum Ba Yah. It makes me want to vomit. What these ignorant net gurus do not understand out in the world there is a narcissistic twit waiting to gum up the works.
YouTube is no exception. Type in Christmas lights and one will see at least 20 users posting the same crappy video. Some even inset there own splash screens acting like a big media company. Why, because it all about them. It all about “look at me me me, I can post a video on Youtube” it is about stoking personal egos.
I have a gut feeling that the bogus DMCA is not just do gooder vigilantism, but escalation of narcissism on YouTube. Instead just ripping off content to get people to your site one starts using bogus DMCA to shutdown the competition. To me it might not be the end of user generated content but It could means is sinking to a new low. |
