MinniHowl

YouTube is a much used online internet page. A lot of people use it and put up videos, of themselves, their friends, stuff they edit, music they make and absolutely everything from slideshows to videos and music mixes.

What annoys me is all the copyright calming. I mean, sure it's fine that you aren't supposed to put up entire movies and stuff like that. But, it bugs me that they remove sound from some videos that has the exact same soundtrack as tons of other videos, and only some get removed. I highly doubt that all the videos there have written permission from the company who produced the song or the singer him or herself. They block videos in some countries for some weird reason, but other videos with the same track aren't. I don't understand.

There is a lot I could complain about on YouTube. The things that annoy me the most is YouTube's new design, it is horrible! The copyright is extremely annoying, especially when it seems to only count for some of the users! As well as the amount of fake accounts saying they are famous people and all the hate videos against other people, also people that steal other people's videos.

There is a rule that states this:

"UNITED STATES CODE TITLE 17 § 107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use40
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. This video was made for criticism, teaching, comment and research, and is not intended for copyright infringement of any sort."

I have now started to use this in the description of all the videos I have. Doesn't this say that everything I put up is for entertainment only? I don't know if it will help yet.

The users of YouTube can be really rude too. Suddenly you can get a really mean comment on your page from a complete stranger you have never met or talked to before in your life. You can get rude comments on your video as well. I think it is okay with constructive criticism, but pure rudeness is just annoying. Recently there was a girl who commented something on another person's video (I will not say any names) and said something as; "I like the idea, but you should try a little better^^" the person who made this video took this comment extremely offensive and went off hating the person. She was using arguments that had nothing to do with the subject. She made a hate video for the person and told everyone she was evil and a racist and that she'd reported it to her mom and the police and the FBI. She also said the commenter would end in hell and that Jesus was on her side. Whenever someone commented on this video against her and asked what Jesus had to do with it or anything the only thing you got back was; "I?m form Croatia, you racist, my mom will not accept it, and I am reporting you to the police." In my opinion people who take something so small as such a huge offence should not be allowed to be on YouTube. The point is if you can't even handle that little bit of criticism you won't survive online. My guess is this person also was very young considering she also had a lot of spelling mistakes.

 YouTube is supposed to be a place where you can share what you do, vlog (video blog), post videos of you or other singing, your talent from editing or tutorials, entertainment videos, animation, news, how-to videos etc. I could go on for a while with this. The point is that YouTube wasn't made for people to attack others, it was meant for sharing. If you got something to say, please say it, but it's totally no point in going all "I HATE THIS AND I HATE YOU!" It's completely irrelevant and it's not even a little constructive, besides you can't hate someone you don't even know. If you don't like a video, tell them why and what they should improve in a professional way. For those who make hate videos, why do they bother using their time making hate videos for someone they don't like then? For people who comment rude on videos of people they don't like, why do they bother watching it? Just to be rude? There is NO POINT. I think they might be jealous, because if they didn't care at all they wouldn't bother commenting at all. They do care, or they're just after attention and they think that's the way to get it or they think they're cool, but guess what, most of them aren't.

My YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/MinniHowl

Xo

~minni-T