Monday, April 16, 2007

Youtube and the copyright cops; safe...for now?

This article is written by Ken Fisher at online ars technica. Today, Youtube is used by many people in the world. Youtube is so interesting and convenience for us. But there are some TV clips or movie clips without authorization in the youtube. It’s bad for companies that make and sell movies or TV programs, because they can’t get money from youtube. If they want to remove the clips, they have to supply the youtube company with a legal notice of the infringement. However youtube can remove just merely identifying the infringing material. Even if many people watched the unauthorized material, they’re safe because they only host it.

-In my opinion-
I like Youtube and I often use them to watch Japanese movies or TV programs, because I can’t watch on TV in U.S. Now, they have some clips without authorization. I want to keep using them. But if Youtube company keep appearing clips without authorization on the website, maybe they will be charge by disgruntled copyright owners. I don’t want Youtube company to keep appearing them and I want them to make website that be able to make everyone fun.

Monday, April 9, 2007

10-years-olds attacked, beat homeless man!

-Summary-
The title of my article is Beating victim: ‘They are dangerous’. I found this article that 10 years olds attack homeless man in Florida, online at the CNN.com, and this it is written by Associated Press. The incident is the homeless man was punched and bashed with concrete wall into his face by the 17-year-old boy and two 10-year-old boys when he was walking outside before 9 p.m. And then, they were accused of attacking him. Although a police had told the day of the boys’ first court to parents, they didn’t come to the courtroom. The policemen told us we need to look at the children’s backgrounds and families. Recently, there are some teenagers’ incidents in the U.S.


-My opinion-
This story is too fearful incident. But the responsibility of this incident is not only the boys but also their parents and the government, because the boys are still 10-year-olds. They don’t know many important things or about the society. So, parents have to teach many things to them and the government should prevent like this incident. However they can rehabilitate, because they are so young. I think we were thinking children are pure and innocent, but now age is changing so rapidly. We have to think about education of child and the rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents.