corporate media

Why I hate (and occasionally like) YouTube.

I hate YouTube. I've had a frustrating week watching anti-corporate activists post their content to YouTube. There are a few obvious reasons why people do this. The first is that it's well known, has a huge number of users and it provides a lot of features non-corporate sites don't, chief amongst them a very easy publishing system and an embedded flash video player that works for almost everyone.

YouTube however also lacks a lot of features

  • you can't download the videos and redistribute them
  • you can't assign open content licenses
  • no bittorrent or p2p downloads
  • no videos longer than 10 minutes
and – Sun, 2006 – 11 – 26 14:38
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