ABC Vs. YouTube

I love the ongoing “pissing into the wind” approach of big media in their battle against the ease and speed with which any and all content will be spread:

Looking for highlights of last night’s Oscars on YouTube? Good luck.

That’s because ABC, which broadcast last night’s show, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which produces the event, don’t want clips of last night’s show on the world’s biggest video site. Instead, they’d prefer that you watch highlights on ABC’s Oscar.com site. (via)

Aside from the fact that I was able to find a number of live streaming links of the Academy Awards last night (on of them was even on the popular Justin.tv) there are literally hundreds of clips of last night’s show on YouTube and elsewhere.

Oh, and you can also download the entire thing from any number of P2P sites.

The point is that ABC has wasted time and energy trying to protect their property instead of working with the powerful distribution forces that were going to win either way.

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