Hm, Catfish, let's not exaggerate. To say that most videos are blocked, is an exaggeration. However, privately posted videos using copyrighted music as soundtrack, are a form of piracy, let's face it. So is the posting of high quality music videos. My quarrel with the GEMA is not that copyrighted content should cost something - an author, a musician should get a reward if somebody downloads a creation by him. It is the most normal thing we accept when buying something in a real store, and if we carry a book or a msuic CD out of a shop wiothout paying for it it would be called shoplifting and theft - but online it all of a sudden should all be for free, and piracy should be legal? My quarrel with GEMA is where it's demands are exceeding reasonable and justifable dimensions or where it ursupates a legal position for itself that it is not legitimised to claim.
In principle I agree with this brief comment:
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/youtube-urteil-schutz-vor-piraten-11724896.html
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Was in der realen Welt etwas kostet, darf nicht im virtuellen Netz verschleudert werden.
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^ This.
