There are now many sites that will host your video clips for you (yourtube, for example). It think the intent was to host personal home videos but I have noticed that many of these now include rips from commercial video DVDs.
With all the fuss by the music industry about peer-to-peer sharing, isn’t the DVD industry just pissing its pants about these videos being made publicly available for free? Isn’t anybody putting the hammer to these sites?
Once they find copyrighted material on them, you can bet the MPAA will be there with a subpoena. They will probably go to the site owner first, who will have to take down anything that’s a violation.
I note that the Terms of Use of Youtube specifically forbids the uploading of anything you don’t own the rights to:
If you tried ripping a DVD, that’s against their terms of use and they’d both take it down and kick you off the system.
NBC C&Ded youtube when “Lazy Sunday” exploded all over it like bomb frosting. So now you have to go to nbc.com to watch “Lazy Sunday” and youtube to watch all 8000 painfully tiring “response” video.
CBS also brought the hammer down on YouTube after people started posting clips from a CBS news broadcast about an autistic high school basketball player. However, many outlets are using YouTube as a promotional tool, placing clips from upcoming TV shows or other goodies on these sites as a way to promote their shows. Perhaps the most interesting recent example was the live-action Simpsons opening sequence. Commissioned by SkyOne, which broadcasts the show in the UK, the sequence was never aired on television and intentionally placed on YouTube and other sites to create word-of-mouth for both the sequence and the upcoming new season of The Simpsons. They recieved permission from the show’s producers and Matt Groening to produce it- in fact, Groening liked it so much, it replaced the traditional opening in the most recent episode.