A friend of mine recently criticized YouTube for not doing more to discourage users from copyright infringement. He suggested, for example, that YouTube should allow other users to police each other for copyright infringement and send in complaints to YouTube (under the DMCA notice-and-takedown procedure, the copyright holder or agent must be the one complaining). Community policing is essentially what YouTube relies on for a whole host of inappropriate content to be flagged. Last week, members of Congress, Chad Hurley, and Mark Cuban had a similar debate (see below). Frankly, I thought the views on both sides were quite thoughtful (and far from the more combative accounts in the press).
What do you think about this or other ideas? This problem isn’t an easy one to solve (even putting aside the legal questions), so I’d love to hear your views.
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