YouTube has no ethics, it's been created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money.” Do you agree?

In today's world, Youtube has become a platform for many people to view music videos, drama series and movies. Despite its small screen size, with not-so-good quality, its number of viewers never fails to drop. It also allow people to upload their personal video and let their viewers rate them. However, it has raise the attention of many people due to the copyrighted laws.

Personally, i agree that Youtube is created for the sole purpose of entertainment and money. With high viewrship rate, Youtube is able to make huge amount of profit. Moreover, the media behemoth, Google, paid $1.65 billion for YouTube. This upset Viacome and demand for compensation as Youtube contains many copyrighted material that belongs to Viacome. According to a July 16, 2006 survey, 100 million clips are viewed daily on YouTube, with an additional 65,000 new videos uploaded per 24 hours. The site has almost 20 million visitors each month, according to Nielsen/NetRatings, where around 44% are female, 56% male, and the 12- to 17-year-old age group is dominant.

As there is no restriction of what videos that can be put up in Youtube, we can find many copyrighted and offensive videos there. For example, the Thailand case whereby the contentious film shows feet being placed over the king's face - an offensive act to Thais, who consider feet dirty.

However, Youtube brings benefits to the public by providing useful medical tips and explanation to certain illnesses and diseases. An example would be the "Hip-hop breast examination". It shows a clip, a comedy troupe from Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, tries encouraging women to do a monthly self-exam for breast cancer by putting the message to a popular hip-hop song. The woman singing the adapted version of the song encourages others to: “Raise your arms in the air/ check for tumours up in there/ check after your menses/ then go shop for Fendi”.

Ultimately, there are pros and cons with the presence of Youtube.





For example, the Thai government has banned access to the YouTube video-uploading website after it broadcast material critical of the country's king recently. YouTube, however declined to remove the offensive 44 seconds video clip.