my morning so far: gooogle video, blogs and lifehacker

ok, so first, he said..
http://jacobian.org

and then she said...
http://www.lifehacker.com
so then I says...

that's astute??
>
> his criticism clearly is reflective of his mis-reading
> the ToS.
>
> "In other words, “we can do anything we want with your
> content.”"
>    - well, no shit. these are things they need to be
> able to do in order for it to be searchable. for them
> to allow and uploads and not have it be available
> would be pretty useless.
>
> "In other words, “we can make money from advertising
> your content.”"
>    - has this astute blogger ever used google before?
> when you search for content, ads are shown based on
> that content...and that content obviously belongs to
> someone somewhere. this is nothing new.
>
> "In other words, “If you create your own version of a
> video upload that runs on Linux or Mac, we’ll sue
> you.”"
>    - the idea that a new piece of software for a
> specific pupose can only be created through
> reverse-engineering seems pretty rigid to me.maybe
> not.
>
> "In other words, “you get 70% of revenues, unless we
> decide it cost us too much, then you get less. By the
> way, we decide what ‘too much’, and ‘less’ means. Oh,
> and if your free video is popular, we’ll bill you for
> the bandwidth.”"
>    - what's so shocking about this?  they'll host your
> video, and pay you for it. if your video is so great
> and popular that it takes up extraordinary amounts of
> bandwidth, the money has to come from somewhere. they
> arent charging you, rather they reserve the right to
> charge a fee to VIEWERS of the video, in the even you
> havent set a fee on your own. seems pretty fair to me.
>
> as for selling your name to spammers...while i won't
> say that no spammer will ever get your info from
> google, this paragraph says pretty specifically what
> they mean to do. in order to approve the video, etc.
> truth is, spamming wont be stopped by being pissy
> about what site does what with the info. especially a
> company like google, who does tend to be good with
> privacy issues.
>
> anyway, this is my rant.
>
> and now i'm off to have coffee.
>
> thanks
>
> zack

to which she answers...

Zack -

I really like your rants.  Seriously - I'd call you astute as well.  :)
 Did you send this to Jacob?

Either way, thanks - as always - for the feedback (and keeping me on my
toes!),
Gina

so i sent it off to jacob.

i'll let you know what HE says..