YouTube is a popular website of free video sharingsite which lets users upload and view videos Founded in February 2005 by three employees of Paypal. The wide variety of site content includes movies and nd TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content. In October 2006, google announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company. The acquisition is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2006.
With You tube, users may submit videos in several common-file formats and YouTube automatically converts them to flash video and makes them available for online viewing.
You tube arises the controversy on copypyright infringement. Also, Youtube is a very fast way of circulation of videos, that one can be afraid of. For instance, the Star Wars Kid event is a good example of the overspread of videos thanks to you tube.
My point of view is that Youtube is part of the revolutionnary effect of the internet, that allows people that are non professional to become experts of video transforming: this is how democratic the internet is. Youtube is, in my mind the perfect example of a hobby for experts or expertise for all. Every one can be famous thanks to Youtube, and this very celebrity can be reckoned true since it comes from thr internet users themselves. there is no false promotion or adverts, but only marks that people can give to the videos.
But, I must say that I feel afraid in front of this phenomenon, because in that world no one can keep safe its own image. The internet is a tool that really needs well educated citizens, which is hardly widespread.
The main issue is that many people, mostly teenagers, view the internet as a playground, where everything is possible, as if it were a land of no reponsibility. The fufutr of Youtube is the education of the users.