will youtube go the way of napster?

OMG! People are actually willingly watching something from Saturday Night Live more than once! Sue somebody! Old media indeed. so friggin' stupid.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/business/media/20youtube.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Julie Supan, senior director of marketing for YouTube, said she contacted NBC Universal about working out a deal to feature NBC clips, including "Lazy Sunday," on the site. NBC Universal responded early this month with a notice asking YouTube to remove about 500 clips of NBC material from its site or face legal action under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. YouTube complied last week. "Lazy Sunday" is still available for free viewing on NBC's Web site, and costs $1.99 on iTunes.

Julie Summersgill, a spokeswoman for NBC Universal, said the company meant no ill will toward fan sites but wanted to protect its copyrights. "We're taking a long and careful look at how to protect our content," she said.

YouTube and others in the new wave of video-sharing sites have so far managed to avoid major legal problems even though they often carry copyrighted material without permission.

"This is an example of the copyright troubles that are waiting for YouTube, Google Video and all the other video hosting services that rely on user-posted content," said Fred von Lohmann, a lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group.

Several online commentators noted that NBC's response to YouTube, while legally justified, may have been short-sighted. The online popularity of "Lazy Sunday" has been credited with reviving interest in "Saturday Night Live" at a time when it is in need of some buzz.

Ms. Supan said VH1 and other television and movie producers were increasingly putting their own clips, trailers and music videos on YouTube in hopes of jump-starting their own viral phenomena.

"We got e-mails from college students, and a lot of them said it's the 'Lazy Sunday' clip that turned them on to potentially watching 'S.N.L.' again," she said.

Unfunny comics tell you what's going to happen in video clips that are passed around the internet. Why are they passed around the internet so much? BECAUSE THE CLIPS SPEAK FOR THEIR FUCKING SELVES!!!

Is there a way to automatically treat a youtube channel as a playlist, to listen straight through to everything posted in a channel? (I know I could theoretically mark off each video and make my own playlist but for really extensive channels I'd love to be able to just stream one video after another, with one click.)

RIP

no wait, it's back up now \(^o^)/

http://techcrunch.com/2015/03/26/youtube-is-experimenting-with-ultra-high-def-ultra-smooth-video-playback-here-are-the-examples/

that's pretty cool (although when I click the cog on those 4k videos, the highest resolution I see is 1080p)

Yeah, that's all I see too. What kind of codec does Gawker use for their tv videos? Because that shit, especially the sports clips on Deadspin, looks super live and super clear.

needs chrome

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSuj8LKVoAAhdP1.jpg

i was in the middle of watching taxi on youtube and they seem to have taken all the eps down

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/20/music-industry-wins-key-vote-in-youtube-copyright-battle

i just watched a 12-minute video that paused THREE different times for an ad break

this seems too much

They give you a little taste and eventually you'll keep coming back to pay for more.

How much control does the content creator, or channel owner, have over the amount of advertising displayed?

iirc you can turn it off