i tried to watch some Top Gear stuff, and all i got is this, in most clips i clicked to watch : This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by British Broadcasting Corporation
YouTube isn't the same anymore since the Google buyout - its 'gone corporate', and with the huge influx of cash into the mix, Lawyers are getting involved big-time. Every major News/Entertainment company is having their content pulled, so if you missed last night's TV episode of 'whatever', its not being posted anymore. All of the good stuff is gone. What is left is coming from outside the US, where B.S. 'copyright laws' are very murky. The Japanese Entertainment companies are fighting to have their stuff pulled, but for now its there - not that you'd want to watch it. YouTube's core demographic is now under 18, and because of the Google corporate identity, censorship is rampant and swift. Anything risque is being pulled (to protect the demographic, and probably pressure from global markets with much more strict internet censorship like the Middle East and Maylasia), with the vast majority of the new content being foreign Anime and sports clips. Oh, and the Muslims like posting their Jihad clips.....so there's WAY too much junk content, and the good content is disappearing as fast as it can be found and deleted. I used to 'collect' 80s video links, most of them are dead now - MTV/VH1/Viacom had them all pulled. The party is OVER, the founders made their money, it was fun while it lasted.......
And if you post anything politically conservative or something that simply is negative towards islamic terrporism in nature it is either censored or hidden.....I prefer to call it Dhimmitube myself.......
Google promises anti-piracy tools soon In the wake of the media backlash against YouTube, CEO Eric Schmidt says thwarting video piracy is one of his company's "highest priorities." February 21 2007: 10:11 PM EST SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) -- Google, racing to head off a media industry backlash over its video Web site YouTube, will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing, its chief executive said on Wednesday. "We are definitely committed to (offering copyright protection technologies)," Google (Charts) Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said in an interview. "It is one of the company's highest priorities," he said. "We just reviewed that (issue) about an hour ago," Schmidt told Reuters when asked what Google was doing to make anti-piracy technologies widely available to video owners. "It is going to roll out very soon ... It is not far away." YouTube, which Google acquired late last year, plans to introduce technology to help media companies identify pirated videos uploaded by users. But, to date, the tools are only being offered as part of broader licensing talks, media industry insiders complain. Schmidt declined to give a specific timeframe of weeks or months to cover all potential users, saying that any move would take time to cover all Google's services, including YouTube, and to be made available to all copyright holders wishing to use the anti-piracy technology. Is Google falling apart? "It is not some product you can just build and leave alone," Schmidt said. Protecting copyrighted material is likely to involve an endless cat-and-mouse game to keep pace with hackers bent on breaking such security tools. MySpace, the popular Internet social network owned by News Corp. (Charts) said last week it would offer its own version of copyright protection services for free. MySpace is YouTube's biggest rival. YouTube's "proposition that they will only protect copyrighted content if there's a business deal in place is unacceptable," a spokesman for Viacom (Charts), owner of MTV Networks and Comedy Central, complained recently. Schmidt said Google plans to make video anti-piracy tools generally available to copyright owners. "We have to do that," he said, but cautioned that, "It takes a while to roll this stuff out" on a wide basis. Earlier this month, Viacom demanded YouTube remove more than 100,000 Viacom video clips from the site after the two sides failed to reach a distribution agreement. In a prepared statement last week, YouTube said the process of identifying copyrighted material is not an automated process and required the cooperation of media company partners. For instance, a clip of a TV show owned by one company might contain music produced by another, making the process of identifying ownership difficult. "These matters are very complicated and we are working with our partners to identify and solve these problems," YouTube said in an e-mailed statement issued last week. http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/21/technology/googantipiracy.reut/index.htm
Yeah it's starting to look like a terrible buy for Google, there was an article in WSJ last week also.
Try going this way: http://www.dpccars.com/car-movies/car-movie-gallery.htm Yes, some have disappeared, luckily there are about 50 other video sites.
I notice that too. Youtube / Google are shooting themselves on the foot. You mentioned 80s vides. I have seen a few old videos myself, and I think Youtube is the right place to find these videos, copyright or no copyright. After all it is not as if they are still making any money out of those old videos. I would not buy the videos, nor pay 10 cents to watch any of them, but if you let me see them for free I may look at the advertisement on the website. Same goes to Top Gear. Speed TV is not smart enough to bring the show to our shores. So if you let me watch them for free, I may be interested on may be buying the show if I like it, or even subscribe to the magazine. I dont understand why all these corporations are all over zealous over copyrights of old shows / videos. After all you can watch Lost for free on ABC the following day, and I dont see them loosing money for that. I thought the whole idea of Youtube was to have a one-stop video library. Sad buy corporate geed is going to hurt them.
