On: YouTube is going Live

[kalleboo]

What's interesting is that they're still only opening it for "partners", so they're not quite taking up the fight with Ustream, justin.tv or Niconicodouga yet.

[MatthewPhillips → kalleboo]

Think if someone live streamed a suicide or some other horrible thing. On Justin.tv, Ustream that would be horrible enough, but on YouTube it would be a whole other level. I'm surprised it hasn't happened on one of those sites yet actually.

[shii → MatthewPhillips]

It has: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/11/teen-kills-self/

[TillE → MatthewPhillips]

You can't make policy based on the worst possible circumstances.

Streaming video sites are already used for pornography, rebroadcasts of live TV, etc. It hasn't really hurt them.

[MatthewPhillips → TillE]

YouTube's on a completely different scale. The public and regulators would go apeshit on Google. "We did the best we could" won't cut it.

[magicalist → MatthewPhillips]

people also upload really terrible stuff right now, and it seems to be flagged quickly enough (though not quickly enough for Italian judges).

[ElbertF → MatthewPhillips]

Or worse, stream pirated music or movies! Sarcasm aside, I imagine that would be a pretty big issue for them.

[ChrisArchitect → kalleboo]

yeah, true -- this is all about scale. They have tons of online content producing partners that will be interested in doing live stuff, and also on the scale side of things, the YouTube reach is immense compared to the DIY streamer sites like justin.tv etc