Comments on: Digital Eviction? http://digitalidcoach.com/2009/01/digital-eviction/ Helping you pull yourself together. Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:09:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: coach http://digitalidcoach.com/2009/01/digital-eviction/comment-page-1/#comment-22 coach Sun, 18 Jan 2009 08:12:56 +0000 http://digitalidcoach.com/?p=112#comment-22 What timing! Ars Technica is running an article, <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20090115-what-fair-use-three-strikes-and-youre-out-of-youtube.html" rel="nofollow">What fair use? Three strikes and you're out... of YouTube</a>, in which they point out Google's practice of pulling videos and shutting down accounts of "third strike" offenders. The article states: <blockquote>Having one's videos pulled from a site like YouTube isn't the end of the world, but it's a big deal when your work depends on reaching others. If visitors have to find your work on a new YouTube channel or another video-sharing site, if they have to change any embedded videos that they posted on their blogs, the disruption has real consequences. </blockquote> What timing! Ars Technica is running an article, What fair use? Three strikes and you’re out… of YouTube, in which they point out Google’s practice of pulling videos and shutting down accounts of “third strike” offenders.

The article states:

Having one’s videos pulled from a site like YouTube isn’t the end of the world, but it’s a big deal when your work depends on reaching others. If visitors have to find your work on a new YouTube channel or another video-sharing site, if they have to change any embedded videos that they posted on their blogs, the disruption has real consequences.

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