Comments on: Take THAT, Viacom!

Take THAT, Viacom!

davy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:26:24 -0800

A YouTube Manifesto. A YouTube fan speaks truth to power. And then he shows us teen girls removing clothes! (Believe it or not neither is NSFW.)

By: Dizzy

Dizzy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:36:26 -0800

How will this impact my Kirk/Spock Fanfiction site? Please advise.

By: localhuman

localhuman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:41:16 -0800

this video represents the youtube community to the world in the same way that john bolton represented the US to the UN

By: miss lynnster

miss lynnster — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:43:33 -0800

I wonder if Viacom will be posting a video response. Kewl! LOL.

By: phaedon

phaedon — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:47:20 -0800

I'm sorry to come out like this, but Sumner Redstone is a loon. This story about Comedy Central's relocation downtown to make it easier for employees to cope with Viacom's massive layoffs - (internationally, to better position itself with Joost?) make me sick. lawrence lessing writes on the suetube situation (nyt).

By: TonyRobots

TonyRobots — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:49:33 -0800

Self-link?

By: homodigitalis

homodigitalis — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:50:06 -0800

The clip culture strikes back by creating even more noize nobody cares about. Buhu!

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:51:59 -0800

Please. You've got to be fucking kidding me.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:52:36 -0800

That was sweet, but lost me at "definately" and the conflation of copyright with trademark. We need, and I think are actually getting, a lot of intelligent discourse about appropriation other places in media. In almost unprecendented levels. Ehich relegates this little missive to noise. Not the post, tho. And thanks for the link, phaedon.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 19:53:10 -0800

0.o

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:01:31 -0800

That was sweet, but lost me at "definately" and the conflation of copyright with trademark. ...in other news, "Justin Timbelake" misspelled, "Ayn Rand" mispronounced (yet again)...

By: Wonderwoman

Wonderwoman — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:09:44 -0800

In a galaxy far far away...... just sayin'

By: Falconetti

Falconetti — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:11:33 -0800

...in more news, Ayn Rand huge influence on intelligent but lonely high schooler...

By: fandango_matt

fandango_matt — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:25:25 -0800

[this is terrible]

By: davy

davy — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:26:12 -0800

No, it's not a self-link. Mine would defintely be NSFW. And copymarked. Or traderighted. Or something.

By: IronLizard

IronLizard — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:41:08 -0800

Is my soundcard broken again? Reading that was giving me a headache.

By: porpoise

porpoise — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:41:27 -0800

I wonder if the 300-odd hits the video has been glanced at is all from mefi...

By: illuminatus

illuminatus — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:18:00 -0800

Yeah, I'm pretty sure this sucks. Please refund my time

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:25:25 -0800

YouTube needs media relations advisor ? March 14th, 2007 The man with the coolest name in the blogosphere, Vint Cerf, reckons that YouTube's bad press (or PR disasters) are part caused by traditional media coverage, which encourages baddies to abuse YouTube...hmmmmm? Isn't part of YouTube's brand appeal that it established itself by accommodating the kind of risque, uncensored content that fuelled its popularity, yet which it now seeks to distance itself from? Not sure you can have it both ways Vint and certainly not a productive media relations strategy to blame the media for your current ills, when they've been so helpful to YouTube's profile building (there wasn't an advertising budget was there?). A bit like Britney shaving her head then blaming the media for showing pics of it, surely? Cerf's comments appeared in yesterday's IT section of The Australian.

By: chlorus

chlorus — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:26:12 -0800

WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE HOPE ME!!?!

By: twsf

twsf — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:45:16 -0800

[yawn]

By: sharpener

sharpener — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 22:49:46 -0800

not enough naked

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:16:21 -0800

GAH. I think youtube has stopped working.

By: Muddler

Muddler — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:07:21 -0800

If I had a dollar for every fucking idiot with no background in the law, economics, or the dynamics of the internets, etc. weighing in on this issue, I'd be richer than Viacom...or those bastages that ran laughing to the bank with $1.65 billion of Google money.

By: psmealey

psmealey — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:45:56 -0800

"Ayn Rand" mispronounced (yet again)... I've always been (mildly) curious. HTF do you pronounce it? I have never actually had a spoken conversation about Ayn Rand, so I'm sure I wouldn't get it right, either.

By: Davidicus

Davidicus — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 04:23:09 -0800

It's pronounced Ain Rand. (like "ain't", without the 't')

By: clearlynuts

clearlynuts — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 05:50:56 -0800

It's pronounced Ain Rand. (like "taint", without the 't's)

By: 13twelve

13twelve — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:04:49 -0800

It enticed me with the nudity and then failed to deliver.

By: Lentrohamsanin

Lentrohamsanin — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:39:32 -0800

I've always been (mildly) curious. HTF do you pronounce it? I have never actually had a spoken conversation about Ayn Rand, so I'm sure I wouldn't get it right, either.

"Atlas Shrugged," said Kite. "that's that big novel by Ayn Rand?" "That's the one." "'Ayn' rhymes with 'sane'?" "rhymes with 'mine,'" Joan said. Matt Ruff- Sewer,Gas & Electric, p.106

By: trip and a half

trip and a half — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:56:34 -0800

How do you pronounce "Ayn"? "Ayn" rhymes with "mine." Excerpted from a letter to a fan, 1937: "Your letter inquiring about the origin of my name has been forwarded to me. In answer to your question, I must say that 'Ayn' is both a real name and an invention. The original of it is a Finnish feminine name. . . . Its pronunciation, spelled phonetically, would be: 'I-na.' I do not know what its correct spelling should be in English, but I chose to make it 'Ayn,' eliminating the final 'a.' I pronounce it as the letter 'I' with an 'n' added to it." Letters of Ayn Rand, page 40

She really was a bit of a dick.

By: cortex

cortex — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:38:54 -0800

"AYN Rand."

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:45:06 -0800

This sucked. I hate it when people overpronounce words in an effort to make them seem "strange" or "foreign." Say "youtube." Saying YOoo TOOOB makes your sound like a cock waffle. And wtf? Who can't pronounce Yu-Gi-Oh? It's spelled that way so that 50-ish douchebags can even pronounce it. Don't say You. Gee. Ohh. It's simply yougheeoh. not hard. "I'm an old guy, and so I have to overpronounce these strange words that are certainly foreign to the majority of my 300-member listening audience but will resonate with a certain minority." No, it makes you sound like a third-grader struggling through her first Ayn Rand novel. Which were written for third graders. But, I reiterate, this post was stupid and will probably be deleted.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:11:52 -0800

Huh. I've always assumed "Ayn" was pronounced like "Anne" and sorta rhymed with "Rand." Didn't know that even the pronunciation of her name stirred controversy. Something tells me she would have appreciated that. What YouTube, this silly and poorly made video, and Viacom have to do with Ayn Rand is beyond me. Again I say... 0.o