The Fall of Youtube and the End of the Carnivalesque

Because of greedy conglomerates and copyright crackdowns, I can no longer post music videos as comments on my friends' myspace pages. "This video has been removed at the request of Viacom due to copyright infringement issues." Translation: "Viacom wants to control what you watch, and they're going to make money off you doing it."

If you actually find the music video you're looking for on some other site, they tack commercials onto the beginning of any clip, and instead of the handy dandy youtube player that lets you load and watch at your own convenience, they prefer to stream your clip so it hiccups every few seconds if you don't have a great connection speed. Oh, and you can forget the html code that lets you post them.

The only thing youtube has now are shitty live clips and dumb homemade video blogs. Pretty soon, we won't even have the shitty live clips.

The carnivalesque is over my friends. The users are no longer in control. Next time you think of a quirky music video you remember from the 80's or a cool scene from a favorite movie, just know that you can't share it with your friends.
But hey, that's America, right? Any chance to make a buck...