Saturday, 11 February 2012
Who Watches the Watchmen?
It’s looking more and more like employees from VEVO, the music video website jointly owned by Sony, Universal, and Abu Dhabi Media, pirated an NFL game at their own event at Sundance. Jason Kincaid’s piece is worth reading in its entirety.
Why would VEVO pirate content? Because it was easier than getting it legally. This is the actual root cause of piracy online. It’s not shady, masked individuals at swanky events commandeering computers to pirate for the hell of it. It’s VEVO employees. It’s everyone.
