Doug Henwood wrote:
The capitalists hope to make a buck off all this selfless collective labor. Maybe, but think of how few of these fantasies survived from Web 1.0.
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No confidence in youtube, I posted a few Travus commentaries after adding images to Windows MovieMaker to force it to create wmv video files... The comments at YouTube were spamish, often racist/sexist/ignorant, mostly rude... albeit YouTube allows one to remove the comments and flag the sender. At least I didn't start recieving spam email addressed from [EMAIL PROTECTED] the way I did immediately after opening a MySpace account to view a friend's profile. No... It didn't have a "forged header", I checked... and seeing that I had opted out of having my email (throwaway) shown publicly, apparently MySpace's accounts database is wide open. wwww.archive.org has been there since before the beginning (ftp days of yore), fully supports Creative Commons licensing, and deals severly with unauthorized uploading, because, unlike GoogleVideo, YouTube, Odeo, etc, the curators ARE watching. I received this note from them just the other day: Dear Archive Patron: A review was recently written for your item, http://www.archive.org/details/tth_060705 at the Internet Archive. We thought you might appreciate knowing this and might want to read it by clicking on the link above. -The Internet Archive team. Reviewer: M.Stax - 5 out of 5 stars - October 8, 2006 Subject: Rediscovery... So fine to find the Travus tripp still exploring the airwaves and elsewhere in the depths of cyberspace... I remember hearing him regularly on KTIM ("The North Bay Noise" in San Rafael, CA) back then... but had lost track of him - until now. <...> Ahhh! I love a satisfied customer! Note that this reviewer can spell, and actually knows about the media commented on, unlike many YouTube commenters. Travus Tripp is another nom de plume... unused for years. ...or come to think of it, maybe the spelling issue and ignorance displayed by YouTube commenters is because the age of the average uploader at YouTube is 12- ...19 years old (mentally, anyway). THAT could be why YouTube is worth the bucks. A target market with a HUGE discretionary spending fund for "entertainment"... 12-20something. Leigh http://leighm.net/ NOTICE: George W. Bush has issued Executive Orders allowing the National Security Agency to read this message and all other e-mail you receive or send---without warning, warrant or notice. Bush has ordered this to be done without any legislative or judicial oversight. You have no recourse nor protection save to call for the impeachment of President Bush and other government officials who are involved in this illegal and unconstitutional activity.
