Mark Cuban wants to know: Who’s uploading pirated content

Personally, I think it’s a great way of showing clips of interest. I have never uploaded anything to YouTube, but I love how sometimes a clip of a show, or a minute of a movie, or even an interview from a news source can all be centralized and you can stumble upon it purely by accident, then see related content presented along side of it. I can think of about ten cds I have bought because I happen to come across a video or something on YouTube, or a news piece I wouldn’t have caught because if it’s region compared to my location. Even a funny segment from the Daly Show that I may have missed. Sure there are places on the web to get all of these stuff, mtv for a video, then over the Comedy Central for The Daly sow clips and if you know the affiliate (and they are cool with the bandwith) you can head over to their site a goof-up or a story that seems important but the larger stations would rather not cover. It’s all possible, sure, but the idea that a community (global, mind you) is contributing it, and no one person “controls” the distribution, as a user I see alot of benefit in that. To me it is the best example of true interactive television. I personally, am not a big fan of long, complete works like tv shows in entirety or a full movie, who would watch all that. Especially since it WOULD eat away at DVD sales, but I DO like that stations like the BBC and CBS are creating content specifically for the medium.

sounds like another suit without a clue to me…

I suggest he listens to the Futuristic Sex Robotz – Fuck the MPAA song… it will clear a lot of stuff up for him.

http://www.last.fm/music/Futuristic+Sex+Robotz/_/Fuck+The+MPAA

If i miss a show in the UK like nevermind the buzzcoxks or mock the week then i noramlly want to watch it. They’re great shows and i hating missing them. But if i do then id have to wait for repeat, which is normally at midnight which i really dont want to stay up for. YouTube has all of the programs in full about 6 hours after they were aired, a few days at most. Why wouldn’t i watch them on youtube? The shows are from the BBC so they aren’t losing advterising money or ratings for them being freely avalialbe on the internet, as they are an advert free network. Instead everyone in the country pays a tv liecnce, which my family pays for, so they’re not losing money from me.

@Chad

Futuristic Sex Robotz are good.

“stop puttin DRM onto audio CDs,
that don’t make it any harder to steal your MP3s”

well clueless suit or not I think it’s great that he’s making an effort to understand why instead of just putting his fingers in his ears and going “lalala our method is perfect sue them lalala” definitely showing some progress.

@Mark

valid point, I just wish they would realize instead of fucking artists and fucking consumers to utilize the technology that is available and do something intelligent… artists have been getting raped by labels and associations for years, and pirating music has been around since cassette tapes …

get with the times RIAA and MPAA … give a reasonably priced and functional means to allow users to utilize your content HOW THEY WANT TO …. people are always going to steal stuff no matter how good you make something… hence the theft detectors and cameras in retail stores YOU CAN’T STOP IT… but if you can provide them a better means of acquiring that media at a reasonable price you can still make plenty of money (cough itunes cough netflix cough) … my Mom can’t figure out how to use Torrents for example but she does by tracks for her ipod…. she doesn’t know where to download full DVD quality movies, but if they provided a service that let her pay for the service, she probably would…

I think a lot of the digital movement and piracy prevention stuff we see coming out of these organizations are mostly growing pains, they are ancient and mammoth and have been making millions on there terms for so long they have lost touch with reality.. if I told you that you can have a car for full price, but can’t drive it unless you obey the rules I put in place on it when I built it you’d backhand me because once that money is given to me you are the OWNER of the said vehicle… why is music or movies any different?

well it’s growing pains and it’s people who are coming to realize that they can’t just sit there on their money and continue making cds, using drm and the like as quick fixes to solve the problem just long enough to make the next form of it.

@Chad

You’re right they are fucking the artists and consumers, and missing out on the bigger picture “”makeing more money”".

But I think their real bigger picture is “”controlling who makes the money”" in this way if the RIAA controls the cash flow, everyone must line up behind them to do business and they [the riaa] esentially get paid for nothing.

Well technically if they control it all, then the RIAA gets to decide whose music we listen to. They create the stars, and they control them. For example: oh sure Brittney Spears was pretty, but when compared to her competition her music sucked. But the RIAA saw an opertunity to make themselves rich and promoted the shit of her. Sadly it worked.

I think the RIAA’s biggest fear is that without them the artists would make more money and could the control their own industry.

roy.. i dont agree with you at all haha…

music has so much more to do with talent then anything…

maybe its just the example you used..
but its not like your everyday person can do what britney spears did… maybe she wasent the best.. but who is to say who is?

yes anyone can put on a tight ass red latex jump suit
but not jsut anyone can hit the notes she hits…

but if you want my views on it… i love rap/hiphop/what ever birtneyspears is considered haha
rappers are over paid and producers are unappreciated… anyone can get a writer and a good beat and make a hit song… it takes someone with tallent tho to pick up a guitar/bass/drums and actually play music and belt out amazing lyrics

hail hail rock n’ roll!

@Smash

amen brother