God bless Auntie
Viacom is suing YouTube and trying to get its material off the video-sharing service. Mean-spirited, really. While copyright law is technically on Viacom’s side, I can’t see how YouTube would patrol it. But with the Napster case as precedent, it’s going to take Google a lot of money to fight.
So you may as well enjoy my Mission: Impossible clips before they disappear.
Meanwhile, the BBC is taking the opposite approach, as with numerous others. It’s put on its own material for sharing, and I’m glad they did. Below is John Simm’s video diary for the second season of Life on Mars (still five episodes away in New Zealand, but we are catching up, since BBC One took the programme off last week to broadcast the football).