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[mogujie]

So I was watching an episode of Cosmos on youtube. An episode about human learning, how far we've come. The last section of the episode I watched, since they're all cut up into pieces, part five of six, was about libraries and how great it is how humans can share knowledge so easily, how far we've come in so little time. The piece ends, and so I go

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[chrit]

OMG. I know you.

[mogujie]

I know you too.

[chrit]

I didn't see your posts earlier in the year. I only check LJ once a week since so many people have moved on. I'm glad to see you still around.

YouTube's policy for their audio copyright has disappointed me so many times. They remove things for liability reasons when I think many artists/authors/owners wouldn't care if their work was connected to a on video on YouTube. They take the easy way out by removing it and it's a disgrace to their company and what the company started as. YouTube could easily be something amazing, a global library of sorts. But legality, politics and greed will always get in the way.

[ledain]

Reminds me of that Family Guy episode. "Mountain Dew is the best soda ever made!"

YouTube's auto-copyright detection is so full of shit. Thank god for Fair Use, or a lot of us would have no defense against this bullshit.

By the way, I don't know you!

[mogujie]

Yeah, it is full of shit. It's so arbitrary too. Some things get it, some don't, and it never even makes any sense. My favorite was silencing all the music videos just so they could make the bullshit VEVO crap nobody likes.

[mogujie]

It makes me sad as well, though I do realize that information is far more easily available now than it was in generations past, despite this. And I'm thankful for that.

What really makes me sad is that so many people just have no interest in actually using this abundance of information. How astounded people would've been a 100 years ago to be able to have what we have now, how excited they'd be to be able to learn at their leisure the way we can today. But us, we just take it for granted and use it for cat videos. (Not that I dislike those...)

This may be the biggest era for information since the dawn of the printing press, but it's also the biggest era of just pure apathy toward it all.

[devious9]

Holy crap...Brian and Christy still post on livejournal :O

[mogujie]

Only sometimes!

[chrit]

But they don't see replies like this until months later.

[chrit]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

[mogujie]

Thanx. Good to hear from you.

[chrit]

Same goes for you. Hope you're doing well.

[mogujie]

And happy birthday to you, now.