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Monday, January 15, 2007

YouTube crosses the line?!

My article is about YouTube becoming a site that has illegal video materials uploaded and the rift it is causing with producing studios. You can view the article titled: "Hollywood Asks YouTube: Friend or Foe?" at http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/technology/15youtube.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&ref=technology.

As I was reading through this article the same thought kept coming over my mind; I feel like I've read this somewhere before. Oh yeah, that's right, we went through the same mess several years ago when music producers got upset about illegal uploading of thier songs. Instead of putting a different spin on this story, I felt like they had just dug up an old article from the music downloading days and changed a few key aspects. There was no originality to this story, or catchy title, or exciting lead. The lead was even a question, which I thought was normally frowned upon. I know that this is a similar problem to that of the music industry, but maybe a few more key examples or numbers about how the uploading on YouTube is impacting movie producers would have helped. All in all, it was a long and repititious article about how the poor movie industry is being ripped off. I'll be concerned when they start getting paid less than me.

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