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Originally Posted by DollarKing
I hope he goes nowhere with it personally the guy is stinking rich why should he care about a few crummy videos of his on youtube.These rich celeb idiots get too much their way.They can make 1 album and if it hits off live of the royaltys of it the rest of their lives.Do you see ordinary people having to live ordinary lives getting royalty payments for last months work done down the factory?
The same i feel about reading about how they have successfully sued to get ownership of dot com sites using their names originally registered by anonymous people before they decide that they have right of ownership in the first place!
Theres loads of michael jacksons despite the famous one so does that mean he can claim ownership of everything using the his name also?
A different case of argument but you dont see them complaining when they get paid huge disgusting amounts of money for years on end for a handful of shitty box office failure films or something do you?
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So let me ask you this. Take a big online adult company. Someone that is very successful and has made some real money. Say a Lightspeed or Silvercash. They have spent a lot of time and money producing their content and they have made a lot of money off selling memberships to sites where you can view this content. Just because they make a lot of money does this mean they shouldn't bother going after torrent sites or tube sites that post full videos of theirs? Should Steve and Mike have to sit by and let people steal their content just because they are successful?
The bottom line is it is his material and he should have the right to say where it is viewed and how it is viewed. I have heard musicians say that they don't care if people download their music or put it on youtube, they just want it to get out there. But there are also those that do care. Those that do care should have the right to say that they don't want it on the site.
You can ask the questions in a lot of different genres:
Should Microsoft not care if people steal copies of MS Office? They have a lot of money and continue to make money off products they no longer work on so should they just be okay with it if 1000's of people help themselves to a copy of it?
Should Disney care if people jump the fence and get into Disneyland for free? After all there are lots of people that buy 3-5 day passes but only use part of it so they got money for nothing. Most of those rides were built years ago and only now get maintenance so they should just give it away free right?
Stephen King has made a ton of money from his books and he continues to cash royalty checks for books he wrote 15 years ago. That means I should then, technically, just be able to grab one of his books off the shelf and walk out with it right? He don't need the money so who cares?
Youtube has made tons of money by posting other people's copyrighted material and they have never paid them a dime for it so if your material is up there against your wishes and they won't take it down you damn well should be able to take them to court