Salva el mundo

Tur wants YouTube shuttered until its parent company, Google, can guarantee his videos and other copyrighted content won’t reappear after being taken down. And even if there’s a filtering technology out there that really works (despite Google’s April announcement of such a technology, Tur is skeptical), he wants a court to say the law doesn’t shield YouTube-like services, so he’s protected from whatever site becomes the next big thing.
Tur understands why people love YouTube, a democratic clearinghouse of everything from family reunions to detainee abuse, and knows that most videos uploaded are actually owned by their poster. He also recognizes the promotional value and potential revenue stream from a site visited by hundreds of thousands of people each day. But, Tur says, unlike Viacom and other big media companies, his case is about principle, not profit — a claim that would be more suspect if it weren’t for his history of fighting similar cases up to precedent-setting courts. He sees his suit as a backlash against Web 2.0 new-media demagoguery — a check on the Shawn Fannings, the Toms from MySpace, and the Chad Hurleys and Steve Chens, who have built empires, he claims, not by creating but by figuring out how to redistribute content online. Which is why Bob Tur just may shape the future of digital media.
Me gusta esta campaña de WWF, vista en Briefblog, “Save the world with a few coins”. Mientras, en el otro extremo de la galaxia, un tipo, Bob Tur, quiere cerrar Youtube por un puñado de dólares… o ni siquiera eso.
[Uno se cansa, ciertamente, de actualizar el blog cada día, y se torna introspectivo como Pierre. Sin embargo, incluso cuando eso ocurre uno puede tener un minúsculo fogonazo de gloria como el que tuve el viernes y quedarse contento con una bonita entrada que dice justo lo contrario de lo que aparenta, si es que dice efectivamente algo... Una experiencia feliz, en todo caso]








