MySpace VS Photobucket

If you are a frequent visitor to MySpace.com, they you more than likely are familiar with either how to post a video (through youtube.com or photobucket.com), or you know what one looks like. Clearly there is unauthorized commercial activity going on, and myspace is supposedly treating the users as a commodity. The CEO of Photobucket.com, is pissed because he believes that myspace.com is taking away users choice of freedom of self-expression. Many of the movies come from photobucket.com...and because of the ban, the CEO is possibly only upset because HIS company, (one of the leading sites on the interent, but not directly used as much) will be losing much of their freedom of self-expression through myspace. MySpace has all the right in the world. It is their site, and they can run it how they choose. If individuals would like to market themselves through it, they they should work out a deal. All people want is money, and because these two sites are hot commodities, clearly making money, they just want more.

iTunes Movies VS DVDs

Movies have become more and more popular on the internet. We can thank youtube.com mainly in part for that. But copy righted movies are also up and coming through Apple's iTunes Store. Large film studios are offering downloadable movies (with a catalog of over 500) to the online store. Such companies include MGM, Walkt Disney, Paramount Pictures, and Lionsgate Entertainment. This, I belive is one step closer to eliminating illegal downloading through the internet, but at the same time, it makes no sense to me. People most often buy movies for the sake of having the case along with it. For instance, I don't think I would buy a strictly downloaded version of Sex and the City to keep without the cover. It's kind of like an episode of there where Carrie goes to a party and is asked to take off her shoes before she comes in. Her response is, "But this is an outfit". It's part of a whole. It is part of what makes movies like The Godfather or Scarface a classic. Music is different, because there is so much more of it, and also the size is extensively smaller than movie files.