By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

We have been pointing to YouTube videos for some time – the website has Saturday Night Live snippets and all sorts of absurd video that actually makes us laugh and look at moving images (a first for me over other sites anyway). But a site upgrade that slowed the system down coupled with the recent decision to delete questionable material without firm guidelines has made faithful users blow their stacks.

“Yesterday, blogger and longtime YouTuber Miel Vanopstal lost his cool in a post titled “Screw YouTube.” Vanopstal complains that YouTube’s recent upgrades have made the site significantly slower, and that new efforts to enforce copyright and delete otherwise questionable material strike him as arbitrary. He is particularly galled that a single alert notice from a “puritanically minded” fellow user can result in a video being deleted. “I’ve had it with these random rejections,” he writes.

“Vanopstal is hardly alone. A bitter Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle says that he was kicked off YouTube two months ago. Weinberg chronicles his dissatisfaction with the free (and reportedly money-losing) service, ultimately deciding that he has only one thing left to do: “Ruin YouTube” by systematically reporting all of the site’s traffic-generating but copyright-violating videos. Microsoft’s Don Dodge, who formerly worked at Napster (Research), adds a been there, done that post to the fray, noting sagely: “User-generated content is very difficult to manage and control.”‘ Source: Business 2.0

We Say: We agree. User managed and driven content is difficult to control. Try TinyPic for a look at another service, and hopefully YouTube will get its technology and policies in order and not blow this one. They had me at You. However, they also had a lot of problems with user-posted illegal material and no real way to make money, so this also could be good-bye. Or good-by. ;)

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