Over the past decades new media has been developing rapidly due to new technologies. Traditional media is changing to New Media . One of the new form of media publishing Vlog. One of the most popular Vlog is YouTube.
According to squidoo.com, some of the benefits of youtube is that you can upload videos that allow other web users to either watch the videos online or download it . Too add on, this YouTube is FREE . There is a problem about YouTube that is copyright issues. Thus many companies are losing money because they are not paid royalty.
There are many cases involving well known companies that are suing YouTube for such act. As reported in the BBC News last year, Viacom which is a company that owns MTV and Nickelodeon, is suing youtube for publishing Viacom's show illegally.
References
Viacom will sue YouTube for $1bil 2007, BBC News, viewed in 17 November 2008, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6446193.stm
Benefits of Registering with YouTube 2008, Squidoo.com, viewed in 17 November 2008, at 2008http://www.squidoo.com/Benefits_of_Registering_With_YouTube
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