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3 pages in length. The ethical concerns pertaining to Google's recent buy out of YouTube and the inheritance of its questionable content is not the first time the search engine giant has been criticized for acting in an inappropriate manner. That Google plans to continue allowing users of YouTube to upload illegal content such as copyrighted material harkens back to its determination to scan and offer millions of books that would otherwise not be available in such complete form. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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acting in an inappropriate manner. That Google plans to continue allowing users of YouTube to upload illegal content such as copyrighted material harkens back to its determination to scan
and offer millions of books that would otherwise not be available in such complete form. This situation with YouTube is once again placing Google in the hot seat of
ethical contention, inasmuch as there are finite rules about Internet content that clearly cannot be legally or ethically condoned; the problem is, however, is existing laws lack the teeth needed
to force Google to remove the content. Why Google would ever consider keeping the illegal content once having taken over YouTube is a puzzling decision given the impact such
unethical behavior will have upon the public.1 In the US, sites like Google Video, SoapBox, and YouTube are generally protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which grants "safe
harbor" to the sites so long as they are not the "publishers" of any illegal material and take it down immediately when requested...Google is alleged to bear some responsibility for
the material it makes available...do sites like Google Video bear an ethical responsibility to screen content before allowing it to be seen by others? Is the decision to remove
offensive or illegal material only after receiving takedown requests a legitimate way to quickly build a library of content, or is it simply a cop-out?2
Television programs, soft porn and violence are but three of the types of uploads Google may continue to make available to the public despite the legal and
ethical connotation. The copyright issue alone associated with uploading protected works such as television shows indicates Google holds little regard for others intellectual property. The very essence of
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