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You-Tube, started in 2005, felt fresh and revolutionary. At the time there was not an easy way for people to post videos on-line. You-Tube made this possible. I was there at the beginning. At the start there was not that much user created videos. There was mostly movies and episodes from a bunch of TV series. And truthfully I was happy with this.  I realize its about “YOU” when were talking about You-Tube but I liked the fact that it had both, sort of variety. Through 2005 to part of 2006 it was great. It was the single most best experience I have ever had on-line. Before I hardly felt any need to go on the Internet for enjoyment. But now I had a reason.November 2006 Google bought You-Tube. Almost a couple days later I started noticing videos getting deleted due to explicit behavior or copyrighted material. Not that much though. Around 2007 everything was quiet, videos weren’t actually getting deleted and YouTube was at the height of popularity.

Then came 2008. The abrupt and I do mean abrupt spin out of control for YouTube. 2008 marked a time in YouTube that lives on in infamy as “The Copyright Crackdown” during this period videos were getting deleted left and right, up and down, over and under. I don’t entirely blame google I blame Viacom. They started the lawsuit claiming that YouTube wasn’t doing enough to stop copyrighted material. Nobody and I mean NOBODY! Goes on YouTube just to see user created videos! So Viacom and other organizations started deleting videos themselves. Taking the law into their own hand. and believe me **** got deleted.

That’s not all though! Do you know that your privacy is being invaded?! In July 2008, Viacom won a court ruling requiring YouTube to hand over data detailing the viewing habits of every user who has watched videos on the site. Even though there was absolutely no evidence that  YouTube treated videos infringing copyright differently. This led to the concern that Viacom could obtain your IP address through your viewing habits. Which I heard is possible. Overall they obtained 12 terabytes of data from the users on YouTube. Since then YouTube has introduced a system called Video ID, which checks uploaded videos against a database of copyrighted content with the aim of reducing violations.

Last I want to talk about something that will never be changed about YouTube and cannot be changed. That is the YouTube community as a whole. People who watch, comment, rate, and subscribe on YouTube. This is one of the main reasons I HATE YouTube. The YouTube community as a whole is the greatest bunch of jerks I and you will encounter. I decided to buy a real expensive camera and just, for the hell of it, make videos on YouTube. But if there is one thing I know now it is that the YouTube community HATES HATES HATES and I mean HATES anybody under the age of at least 18. If you are under 18 I do not recommend making videos. You’ll just end up taking them all off, out of frustration. However they are not all mean just most of them. I used to make videos and still do but  a preteen at the hardest time of their life does not need to hear hate coming from people who want to make themselves feel better. If you are under 18 feel free to make a video but expect hate. I was attacked so many ways it was unbearable! People made full fledged videos depicting how ugly I was. Taking apart every single piece of my face. My nose, mouth, eyes, ears, face structure, skin, fitness. Those were the choreographed assaults. Then there was the lamer assaults the “You Suck” “You’re a Fag” “Go Die” “You’re Ugly”. Blah BLAH blah BLADDADDY Blah.

You-Tube is going downhill. With the copyright, the privacy invasion, and the hateful community. It is just not Worth it. All the hardships you have to deal with just for 10 minutes.