The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Both of those videos, and vast quantities of other highly original and
entertaining home-made clips have been viewed hundreds of thousands of
times. A YouTube visitor could trawl through the site for days and
never exhaust an endless supply of highly entertaining original
material not subject to any copyright restrictions.
Of course there are also all of those
illegally posted clips of The Simpsons episodes, snippets of Jay Leno
and a heap of other stuff. However, YouTube could survive quite
comfortably without those clips. My view is that most people visit
YouTube to see something different and original rather than poor
quality re-runs of parts of TV shows.
If YouTube follows up its Warner deal with a few more, then the site
will become even more interesting. Looking at the clips on YouTube
tonight, I see that one of the top clips is actually a snippet from the
Tonite Show of a week ago with Jay Leno which was posted by NBC.
If Universal Music and wants to get narky and sue YouTube (and
MySpace), then I'm quite sure YouTube will gladly remove all offending
Universal material that has been posted. If Universal insists on
pursuing a few million in damages, there will be no shortage of backers
for a site that is now one of the highest ranking sites on the web.
YouTube is a site that has original content galore and it is so popular
that NBC and soon others will be lining up to use it to promote their
shows. It bears no resemblance at all to the original Napster. So, no
Mr Bernoff, it won't be shut down. I guess that makes me another
soft-headed thinker eh?
David Bass
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