Comments on: The End of Editors? http://www.jacobrosenberg.net/2006/07/12/the-end-of-editors/ The view from AOL's Operations Mon, 08 Dec 2008 05:02:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joseph Manna http://www.jacobrosenberg.net/2006/07/12/the-end-of-editors/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Joseph Manna Fri, 14 Jul 2006 23:10:46 +0000 http://www.jacobrosenberg.net/2006/07/12/the-end-of-editors/#comment-7 The best content is the type thats free to have. All of MySpace's content is essentially free, and minimal work on their part (beyond expanding server capacity for all the traffic) is done. This however, opens YouTube, MySpace, and other user-contributed services to one vulnerability - legalities for hosting it. I understand AOL Legal has set legal precendents concening liability for content but that seems to not have helped MySpace yet. They are being sued on the grounds of negligence due to a sexual assault on a 14yr. old girl. Its best a suit like this happens now, and quick, and set a legal precendent so sites like these can still thrive. Oh wait, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants records on these sites? :snicker: Let's wait for PATRIOT Act IV to be enacted and watch these sites collapse. Nice blog by the way Jacob! :-) - Joseph Manna - AOL Member Services, Tech Happenings - http://journals.aol.com/josephmaaz/happenings/ The best content is the type thats free to have. All of MySpace’s content is essentially free, and minimal work on their part (beyond expanding server capacity for all the traffic) is done.

This however, opens YouTube, MySpace, and other user-contributed services to one vulnerability – legalities for hosting it. I understand AOL Legal has set legal precendents concening liability for content but that seems to not have helped MySpace yet. They are being sued on the grounds of negligence due to a sexual assault on a 14yr. old girl. Its best a suit like this happens now, and quick, and set a legal precendent so sites like these can still thrive.

Oh wait, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) wants records on these sites? :snicker: Let’s wait for PATRIOT Act IV to be enacted and watch these sites collapse.

Nice blog by the way Jacob! :-)

- Joseph Manna -
AOL Member Services, Tech
Happenings – http://journals.aol.com/josephmaaz/happenings/

]]>