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Jonny
16th February 2014, 12:03 AM
If you just heard about something that you want to share, here is the place to :)

National In Germany the GEMA (a semi-private Copyright agency - noone likes them) wants to earn money for every attached - or even just a linked - YouTube video. Even if it's you own!

Short and old: A American politican said:"**** the EU", I'm actually a bit enraged because of that, scince I'm a European Federalist (and FEISAR-Pilot ;))

Xpand
16th February 2014, 01:40 AM
Don't they already earn money for each youtube play? That defeats the purpose of charging for embeded videos, since you can only charge if someone actually views it. The best comparison I can find is someone getting charged just by saying the name of the song on the street. And charging for links doesn't make a needle tip of sense, mainly because they can't copyright a random string of numbers and letters.

Jonny
16th February 2014, 12:03 PM
Thats true, but they plan to do it! Long life the Online Petitions ;)