Quotes Of The Day

YouTube (Google) personnel must have fun telling some of their users that they’ve committed theft of copyrighted content and risk having that video removed, and/or having their accounts revoked.

Whenever you have liberals, you almost always have hypocrisy.

The key evidence (in the Viacom lawsuit) against Google/YouTube is that they knew that only 20% of their content was legal and one executive even resorted to uploading stolen content.  In fact, the fundamental business model of YouTube was to build up as much traffic as possible through any “tactics, however evil” according to YouTube founder Steve Chen.  The purpose of these tactics was to build enough traffic so that they could sell the company (and they- eventually did for $1.65 billion).

In one email exchange on July 29, 2005 from this Viacom “Statement of Undisputed Facts” document, Chen apparently directed his co-founders to steal content.

Uh oh.

In a July 29, 2005 email about competing video websites, YouTube co-founder Steve Chen wrote to YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, “steal it!”, and Chad Hurley responded: “hmm, steal the movies?” Steve Chen replied: “we have to keep in mind that we need to attract traffic. how much traffic will we get from personal videos? remember, the only reason why our traffic surged was due to a video of this type . . . . viral videos will tend to be THOSE type of videos.”

So not only does YouTube know they have stolen content (apparently 80% stolen according to their own estimates in the discovered emails), and condoned and hoped for more stolen goods, one YouTube executive/founder apparently stole and uploaded copyrighted content and promoted it.

I must remember to enclose these quotes when YouTube decides to question my content.