Reply #32: As a producer of a popular independent documentary... [View All]

[Dissenting_Prole]

that has been uploaded to Google Video five times in one month, I can tell you that I'm sick of other people trying to tell me that they are helping us promote our documentary by doing this. They need to understand that WE will decide how we want it promoted. If we want to promote it this way, WE will make our own promos and upload them ourselves, thank you. We use Google and Youtube ourselves, we don't need help in that department.

Uploading copyrighted material is theft. Period. I have to defend Universal because the same rules apply to them as to me. Just because they make millions is not an excuse to steal from them. If someone doesn't like the fact that Universal makes more more than them, they should form their own company, create original content, and work for their slice of the pie - not steal little bites from someone else's.

If Google and YouTube are going to offer this service, they need to be as diligent and cooperative as possible with the owners of copyrighted material. If a law firm somewhere would take them on, they could bury Google over this issue. Unfortunately, with their shares trading at just under $400, Google thinks it can do whatever it wants.