Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
How Youtube has changed our world OR Trapped in an Elevator
Sadly this bloke, Nicolas White spent 41-hours in an elevator in 1999, but hurray for the internet! You can view his entire harrowing experience in 3 short minutes accompanied by a soundtrack of classical piano music. CHECK BELOW!
He was a production manager for Business Week when he left his office at about 11pm on Friday for a cigarette break.
"After a certain period of time I knew that I was in pretty big trouble because it was the weekend," Nicholas White said on ABC-TV's Good Morning America. He said he relieved himself down the shaft when the doors were open. Mr White sued the managers of the skycraper and the elevator maintenance company and won an undisclosed settlement.
-And the lesson is... Don't work late on a friday OR Sue afterwards and get paid!
The Creative & Freedom
Computers and the internet have expanded the ability of individuals to not only create more but also to gain exposure for their creations. Artists both musical, visual and all are now able to show the world their work but the question begins to arise...
Who owns the rights to things put onto the internet? Many of us have been watching endless videos on youtube and other online video sites. I am wonder who owns the rights to those videos. What about when someone takes a video in a public street and posts it on the internet? Do they have the right to put other people's images on the web?
Where do the privacy rights of the public begin and end? The internet has grayed the lines between the individual's freedom and individual freedoms of privacy. This is the newest and most difficult area for the internet to establish some rules in. The wild west of privacy rights is the net...
Who will police it? Will anyone? Who will pay?
The future is uncertain but current trending has been leading to more social and less governmental or authoritarian power particularly on the internet.
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