The Video Police

Written by Bryan

October 27, 2007 | 7 Comments | Print This Article

A broad range of players in the Internet video industry, minus Google meet today in order to arrange a set of “collaborative principles” for Internet video. They hope this movement will help Internet video to continue to grow, while also protecting copyrighted material.

Headlining the group were CBS, NBC, Fox, Myspace, Disney, and Microsoft.

This conference is being planned because of the increased demand of companies to respect their copyrighted material. Viacom, as you may have known has a pending lawsuit against Internet video superstar YouTube, and this is no doubt, one of the major reasons of this United Nations-like gathering.

A recent study (read offline) shows that almost 35% of software (including operating systems) is pirated. This is just a flash in the pan when you start considering illegal mp3 downloads, which make up almost 65% of all music downloads.

I have no clue what these media giants think they are going to do to stop pirating, but I applaud them for trying. It’s become clear that Internet piracy will get worse before it gets better.

Bryan - EJ News


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