Google vs. Viacom

I figured this would be a good topic to talk about in a blog post. This is a very controversial topic! I can see valid points for both sides. Google the company is clearly not purposely violating the law. Their goal is not to steal people copyrighted work. They just provide a service that happens to be very popular. It is kind of similar to the Napster situation a few years ago. Napter wasn't uploading all of its content the public was. But when you look at it from the other side Viacom is losing money because people get to see their material for free. It's not fair to the people who made this material or for the people who own the rights to the material. It's a double edge sword. In the future i can see youtube being a site that users will have to pay money to be a part of. The is probably going to be the only win-win situation.