[kageri]

I don't know what it says about me that my least favorite thing about this is that they'll be yanking copyrighted things off even faster now.

But I agree with Medikor. Blaming YouTube is kind of.... well, you can't, really, because if I were them and getting sued for a billion dollars I'd probably be deleting copyrighted material left and right too.

And as much as I love watching TV shows for free on YouTube, I can see why they'd be targeting that site. Yes, anime music videos have existed on the Internet since dinosaurs walked the earth, but no one's going to bother trying to shut down a little Geocities page with Sailor Moon animated gifs. YouTube is a majorly huge site and millions of people watch videos there every day.

I also agree with Voxxyn but that would be a hard thing to monitor. There are entire Ranma 1/2 episodes on YouTube, but there's no way for YouTube to know that it's okay if I watch them because I have stacks of the DVDs in my closet (although I would sort of consider that free advertisement, most people don't just go out and buy DVDs of things they don't know if they like and there's no way of knowing otherwise since that show hasn't been on TV in like ten years). Anyways, my point is, a lot of people do take advantage of the opportunity to watch TV episodes and movies for free because they are free.

In closing, I can sympathize with YouTube's plight, but the day it becomes a video site filled solely with teenagers dancing to "Dragostea Din Tei" in front of their mediocre webcams will be a sad one indeed.