RSSMedia's NMT Blog

YouTube has been in the news quite a bit recently, what with facilitating the release of the first four hours of season 6 of 24 and episodes of The Simpsons before they were aired on TV. Today's news is perhaps more important in terms of your exam: people adding content to YouTube will get paid - perhaps only a few pence / cents, but the principle is a significant one. For example, News Corp. didn't buy MySpace so a load of school kids could comment each other whilst at school; there's loads of money to made out of it (or at least there ought to be, they just need to figure out how). Shouldn't the people creating the content - however embarrassing some of it may be - get some of the rewards?

No doubt in future posts I'll have a go at leading you through the debate on the role of amateurs in mainstream media so watch this space.

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