How Serious Is Justin.tv About Fighting Live Broadcasting Piracy?
My guess: they’re serious about claiming they’re serious about fighting it, and that’s about it. It’s not their fault, it’s the nature of the game.
Between them and ustream, I was always able to find a Stanley Cup playoffs stream, and not just of the finals either. The rooms were linked to from some popular forums, and persisted from one game to another, so it wouldn’t have been hard to prevent.
And it’s not surprising. If this traffic graph:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/justin.tv+ustream.tv/
is even close to correct it’s a dead heat between those two sites. Guess what’s likely to tip the scales in one’s favor?
YouTube got big largely on copyrighted content. In fact still the most popular clips there are professionally-produced music videos. The simple fact is that user generated content is largely crap that nobody cares about, and all of it added together isn’t as in-demand as one Katy Perry video.
So the video sites will go around claiming “we’re covered by the DMCA” and “we’re developing software to stop it” but really their incentive is purely to allow copyright violations, and shocker, that’s what they do.
