It’s acceptable that google would charge at least some money to filter material for piracy. It’s not fair however to charge that they are terrorizing people, without considering the extra manpower that’s required as a whole.

I can’t help but wonder if this is all really about the content that he helps create, and the knowledge that all forms of security for video have been broken. It’s a rule of thumb that there will be a hack available shortly, either cable tv, sat tv or DRM/
What must content owners be thinking, with a teraflop server available within 5 years? Sure, teraflop isn’t so hard anymore, but with the size that’s coming all hell is going to break loose.
If there’s one thing humans know how to do, it’s fill the space that you’ve got.

I’m sure crypto will follow suit with all that extra power, but how much more? Is quantum crypto going to be what’s needed to protect video?

There is no doubt in my mind that we can process video, to find copyrighted material several ways:

1. Human eyeballs
2. Computer processing:
Closed captioning or other OOB/Sideband information
Speech analysis
Lots of image hacks to identify marks

Now, how much technology is youtube bound to be liable for? I’m not sure how much of the DMCA states youtube must provide for free, but I personally believe none of it. I believe that if every company like YouTube that springs up is forced to provide video scanning like Paramount or Mark Cuban demands, it will fold immediately.

If YouTube is receiving 20,000 videos a day, each an average of 60 seconds long, we have over 3 days of processing time if just one machine is doing all the work in realtime to identify just one type of video. I wonder if finding copyrighted materials for two companies would slow it all down to 5 days of processing.

Irregardless, the whole point is that soon you have every Tom, Dick (and even Harry), lining up outside your door with picket signs demanding that you screen whats uploaded to see if infringing content is being created. What Mark Cuban fails to realize is this:

Gootube is allowed to make deals that would reduce the amount of liability they incur for having such service, by filtering in exchange for free material by the copyright holders.The sheer expenses that they must incur on a daily basis for human eyeballs, coupled with the amount of the processing power needed to weed out obvious infarctions  is not free for YouTube, even with ads.

I’m sure this wouldn’t make much sense to him, but I wonder if he’s willing to give everyone his news program records, fair payment for the tragedies they endured and he profited from. I doubt it, and I’m probably way off base for it, but even he is not bullet proof.

But wait, what if he gave the news away for free online?
Oops, he’d still have to put up ads for the bandwidth.

Dan works for free right?
Oops, there is still ads on the front of his site.

No matter which way Mark Cuban goes, he could still be wrong.

Yes, it did take me a long time to finally come back around to figuring out why Cuban picks on google so much. More unravels everyday, but this isn’t the best I can do. It gets better all the time that I practice it.

Mark Cuban has stated before about what type of videos get posted on Youtube, and why it’s moronic that anyone would buy them. I’ve believed for sure that there was real videos of interest that get uploaded to Youtube all the time. I’m not one for Redneck news all the time, or videos of a guy lighting fireworks in his ass, but there is news out there.
Sure, it’s not Dan or a great Mavs game but it’s real life that is rarely caught by reporters.

Maybe this guy who decided to not leave when he was clearly violating the rules is a moron, but I for one can’t undermine the importance of having a place to post clear evidence. Let’s say for instance this was a media report, the video would be chopped down and reduced to headline news. Youtube didn’t edit the video and frankly I’m sure they don’t have the time to fiddle with your news.

I’m not saying I have advertising dollars I wanna spend on the ads for that video, but I’m pretty sure I can’t depend on HDNET to post all 7 minutes of the video, nor can I say all email servers would allow the video either.

It seems that all the fuss being raised over Youtube by Mark Cuban might not be due to any threat he perceives from them against his own fledging companies. One is only left to wonder why he cares at all, and believe it or not it’s on my todo list.

Odd, probably eccentric, I just don’t even know myself why it bothers me so much.
I still hope to find out more about myself in the process, so not all is lost. Maybe some of the quip will have to go to kinder pastures though. Sometimes you love the way you respond, other times you feel like a jackass.

With all the recent Mark Cuban material flying around, I just can’t stand it: there is now a Mark Cuban section of my Blog.

Yes, I know “Why bother a billionaire?”

Simple. I can’t talk to him besides leaving comments on his blog, but he’ll never attempt to school me on why business has to stay the way it is. I respect some people to the highest measure due to their unfaltering views of humans and where we are going. Respecting the ones that accept us as who we are and what we must do currently is within my control too.

But this man, who started from the same depths all of us did has built himself up to the point where he is the grand decider for all. He -knows- the Google Youtube deal is bad.

I do understand that Youtube wants to ‘use in any way shape or form’ the clips you upload. It’s standard practice, but even more important when the clips are shared on 2 million web pages. Geez, the hot air must interfere all sorts of things.