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Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:13:44 -0000

"The author seems to have an axe to grind"

Huh?

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 04 May 2007 19:12:18 -0000

You have no taste in women.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Jay — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:24:01 -0000

They only signed her on for 4 episodes from the get-go.
It wasn't a "trial period."
She should get credit for opening a door for "guest players" there, since other youtube performers could get the same gig later.
The author seems to have an axe to grind...

Note to Mike -

If your "talented out-of-work filmmaker" friends could use some money, perhaps they might consider applying their talent to making vids and posting them on YouTube. It might make their amazing talent visible to people who might want to fund a project.
Then they could be working, instead of sitting around making you frustrated.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Jack — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:21:02 -0000

Couldn't they create a title filter? If you can't find the copyrighted material, there is little point uploading it. Thus getting around the problem of paying people for uploading copyrighted content.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Mike — Fri, 04 May 2007 11:53:08 -0000

LisaNova is talentless, go ask the producers of Mad TV. They thought they had a supernova, when in fact she turned out to be an internet star--go figure. I know many of talented out-of-work filmmakers who could use some many to create and yet they wanna pay Rennetto? Pleaze.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Macca — Fri, 04 May 2007 09:57:25 -0000

"LisaNova, whose good looks almost make up for a lack of talent."

I suggest you need to get out more.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Ali — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:44:43 -0000

I've never watched lonelygirl15 and never plan on.

So just in case advertisers are wondering, probably barbie dolls and glitter nail polish are the best bets for her kind of videos.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Matt — Fri, 04 May 2007 04:41:19 -0000

YouTube definitely does have some excellent user-created content out there. I would love to see them revenue sharing with all users, except therein lies the problem. In the age of "instant fame", how can one predict who the next "star-wars kid" or "numa numa guy" will be? These kind of users certainly deserve credit for their works, but if YouTube is only offering revenue sharing to a select few, how will the "little guys" get their cut?

I suppose if YouTube WAS to open up the treasure chest to all users, they would end up paying some people to share copyrighted content etc (user-recorded TV episodes are quite popular on YouTube, even after the "reduced length restrictions"), and there begins a whole new realm of legal complications. YouTube would certainly be in strife if they were to go down that path. It's sad really.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Jack — Fri, 04 May 2007 03:49:44 -0000

I don't think YouTube's content is poor, I spend a lot of time on there, and there are people with really interesting opinions (Blunty3000 for example).

I do think, however, that this is a getaround for YouTube. Now they can say "We pay our content producers" when actually, they're only going to pay those that get the most views, not everyone.

Done properly, this could have been amazing. Instead, it's just a cop out.

Re: YouTube Users Get Paid. Tomorrow.

Pete Cashmore — Fri, 04 May 2007 02:43:25 -0000

I'm not sure that YouTube's priority is quality. Of course payments will lower the quality of content.