VEVO CEO tries to explain their hypocritical act of piracy at Sundance

So VEVO's position is that this is a valid defense?

"I didn't secure my computer and others had access to it."

Interesting.

What a load of crap. Their excuse rings completely hollow to me.

I mean, it's pretty weak in and of itself. Then I consider the company VEVO keeps. That is, hugely powerful record labels that have bribed, coerced, and abused the American legal/political system to keep themselves between musicians and patrons for so many years. I don't know that a better excuse would have even helped. These companies, and their ilk, have lost all credibility with me as a consumer and American Citizen.

I view them as scumbags of the highest order. I am not alone and we're just waiting for them to screw up so we can take joy in the next step of their long, slow demise.

And screw up they did. Big time. The NFL may be the only people more psychopathic than Hollywood about their copyright. They actually say during their broadcast that you can't talk about the game without their permission, when you hear it sounds like something out The Onion or Brazil. I'd love to see VEVO get slapped with a fat lawsuit from the NFL. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that...

They're demonstrating that it's practically impossible for an average person to NOT run afoul of copyright law during natural everyday activities.

I hear a lot of people yelling about this, but is there anybody else who thinks this is totally awesome?

To me, this is just more ammunition these companies are giving to the people they're trying to prosecute.

And in this case, you actually have video supporting the notion this was not an "oops" situation.

The real problem here is that Vevo (and the RIAA, when caught with an IP address that did BitTorrent) won't be persecuted under laws like SOPA/PIPA and whatever comes from ACTA and TPP. Since SOPA gives the DoJ and "rightsholders" discretion about who to shutdown, the situation will be more like the Great Firewall of China: "One eye open, one eye shut".

Some websites will mysteriously be allowed to stream video, others will get slapped down, hard. It will all depend on who you know, and what the transient policy of the moment is. I'm sure that MPAA and RIAA know that they will be allowed to act with discretion, I'm just not sure they know others will, as well, and what the fallout from that will be.

This is an absolute joke. We need to heed YCombinator and "kill" Hollywood. Make Silicon Valley and S.F. the new entertainment and creative centers of America.

Let's merge technology with entertainment.