But releasing HD will bring YouTube one step closer to the legal decision that either cripples them or shuts them down entirely. It will only hasten the fury of the creators, both corporations and individuals, who hate seeing their hard work ripped off so that other corporations have a place to advertise. Both those groups have tremendous power: the corporations because they have billions of dollars, and the individuals because they’re creating the videos that are being watched in the first place and can easily post them elsewhere.
Jakob’s analysis of YouTube’s announcement that they’ll attempt HD in 3 months. The only piece of it I disagree with is the following: that Chad or Steve feel “deeply guilty” about their “truly evil policies.” No. I don’t think guilt has ever occurred to them.
