This is an open letter I sent to Channel Awesome regarding their complaints about YouTube/Google, ContentID and Fair Use. It's way too long to post on Twitter, so here it is on one podcast site:
I hate to tell you this, Doug and company, but one of the reasons I haven't seriously started a review show is the fact there's zero transparency with YouTube. ContentID is insane. And here's the fact: it's a monopoly. There's no anti-trust laws against Google which has become a $40B a year company:
http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/goog/financials
And while it's nice to say "go public", but how many channels have 350K subscribers?
What needs to be done is an anti-trust lawsuit. There's sufficient evidence that Google has no interest in monitoring YouTube content. It's too massive. They'd have to actually (gasp!) hire people to check content. It's automatic.
Did you know that ContentID is so robotic it'll accept content claims on PUBLIC DOMAIN VIDEO? (See: NASA's videos.)
http://arstechnica.com/…/how-youtube-lets-content-companie…/
There is no such thing as "dialog" here, Doug and company. If you want to affect change, serve Google with an antitrust suit.
Because here's the thing: what alternative do revenue streamers have? BlipTV is gone. Vimeo was no better than YouTube when it came to content claims (Pixels, remember?)
The fact is that they're cheap. They don't want to hire people to address content claims case-by-case. That would require thousands of people taking in tens of millions of salary. Google does NOT want to do that.
I'm not in a position to sue YouTube and Google, because I haven't started any show. Nor do I want to til there's a safe revenue stream. That's the way it is.
It's up to YOU.
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