RE copyrights. Millions of videos have been pulled from youtube due to so called copyright infringements. People buy a CD, the company and the artist get their money, and the person who bought it then puts it on youtube. Then, the lawyers for the music company cry and scream because they aren't getting paid for it again. They sold it. Besides, anything put on the internet is fair game, including music. These so called "pirated" videos get pulled down based on these copyright claims, bye bye Mrs. American pie. Even though the artist, nor the company has been able to prove any loss. Whatever happened to the days of the dual cassette player, when you wanted a song, you just dubbed it from a friend? You weren't called names, and then sued. You just had music to listen to, the musicians and record companies still got sickeningly rich. The people responsible for pulling down the songs are the real pirates, they are the ones stealing music from the people. This is hurting the music industry, and the musicians by costing them free advertising. Someone uploads a song, others hear it, like it, and want to hear more. So, they either buy the CD, because few bands have every single song available, or the person will go to a concert, and likely buy merchandise while they are there. On the other hand, people like Metallica and Jewel, who invent these problems, just cost themselves money, they shoot themselves in the foot, and many people just boycott their band.
