They want what they have long wanted: to push responsibility for enforcement onto someone else.
The problem is that no one else can tell what is and is not authorized. Copyright relies on permission and the copyright owner (and only the copyright owner) has any idea to whom they have and have not given permission.
Granted, as the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube once proved, even they can get that horribly wrong, but anyone else has even less knowledge to act upon, which should not be encouraging.
I'm sure they see that the DMCA spammers are rather ineffective at doing anything but taking their money, which no doubt upsets them, but the level of censorship and preapproval for speech that would be necessary to actually enforce copyright is, in fact, quite draconian.
Given how easy it is to quite literally steal someone's video (that is, by both taking it and depriving them the use thereof) with ContentID and how many times something like that has actually happened, I can only fear what might come to pass were they given their wish.
> The problem is that no one else can tell what is and is not authorized. Copyright relies on permission and the copyright owner (and only the copyright owner) has any idea to whom they have and have not given permission.
It goes even further than that: there are completely legitimate uses for which the copyright owner hasn't given permission, and their permission is neither requested nor required. YouTube's "Content ID" doesn't take fair use into account at all.
The problem is that no one else can tell what is and is not authorized. Copyright relies on permission and the copyright owner (and only the copyright owner) has any idea to whom they have and have not given permission.
Granted, as the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube once proved, even they can get that horribly wrong, but anyone else has even less knowledge to act upon, which should not be encouraging.
I'm sure they see that the DMCA spammers are rather ineffective at doing anything but taking their money, which no doubt upsets them, but the level of censorship and preapproval for speech that would be necessary to actually enforce copyright is, in fact, quite draconian.
Given how easy it is to quite literally steal someone's video (that is, by both taking it and depriving them the use thereof) with ContentID and how many times something like that has actually happened, I can only fear what might come to pass were they given their wish.