I’m not contesting the legality of what TechCrunch an other modern web article farms do. It’s all legal. The problem is that even if it is legal, it’s fucking people over. Plagiarizing a YouTube video by taking the closed captions and copy/pasting them onto your site with an attribution link is fucking cunt behavior, and the death of modern journalism. Legal? Yep, it sure is. Morally reprehensible? Definitely.
If YouTube videos are what “modern journalism” has to offer, modern journalism is trash.
I have absolutely zero interest in watching an eight minute video to gain what I could have read in two minutes.
I don’t need to see anybody 's face or hear any stupid music or, even worse, watch them talk over another video as they present the information. 90% of what these people do would be more effective presented textually, and the rest is ads, vamping, and narcissism.
YouTube is great for spreading misinformation and propaganda, and wasting people’s time. Let’s move on.
I believe in the right to quote which is also the law in most of the world because of Berne Convention.
I’m not contesting the legality of what TechCrunch an other modern web article farms do. It’s all legal. The problem is that even if it is legal, it’s fucking people over. Plagiarizing a YouTube video by taking the closed captions and copy/pasting them onto your site with an attribution link is fucking cunt behavior, and the death of modern journalism. Legal? Yep, it sure is. Morally reprehensible? Definitely.
If YouTube videos are what “modern journalism” has to offer, modern journalism is trash.
I have absolutely zero interest in watching an eight minute video to gain what I could have read in two minutes.
I don’t need to see anybody 's face or hear any stupid music or, even worse, watch them talk over another video as they present the information. 90% of what these people do would be more effective presented textually, and the rest is ads, vamping, and narcissism.
YouTube is great for spreading misinformation and propaganda, and wasting people’s time. Let’s move on.
You’re so angry lol. Just don’t watch it jeez.