YouTube is the fastest growing site in the history of the web and gives everyone a glimpse. It is a very powerful platform for users to upload their personal videos on the website to share with their friends or family. As a consumer, for sure, there is a need for existence. However, YouTube raises some copyright issues. Although there is a statement warning users against improperly using copyright material, users are free to upload any content they have, such as unauthorized TV shows. If YouTube went out of business or changed how it functions, links from other web resources could become nonfunctional.
Some people do not look positively on YouTube because there is too many unauthorized copyright infringement works upload on the web each day. Nevertheless, YouTube and Napster or Grokster are not the same, YouTube still have its position to survive because according to DMAC’s ISP safe harbor provision, YouTube belongs to the definition of the safe harbor. If YouTube wants to exempt for the infringement, YouTube has to prove it is not for the sake of increasing profit. Therefore, if YouTube.com could provide new technology such as anti-piracy filters to protect copyright holders and stop future copyright infringement and effectively remove the unauthorized works and establish a better method to solve this problem. Then YouTube could exempt its right and at the same time, it could highly decrease the lawsuit from copyrighted holders.
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