All of those people who glibly use YouTube to ‘prove’ Andy Warhol’s famous assertion that”In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes” have been wrong, wrong, WRONG. YouTube videos only last ten minutes – everyone knows that. Well, they did.
YouTube has decided to allow longer videos to be uploaded. Not much longer, we have to say, but if you were finding ten minutes too restrictive for your garbled, ill-thought-out ‘answer’ to the Newport State Of Mind video then hopefully an extra 5 minutes will let you vent your spleen sufficiently.
YouTube product manager Joshua Siegel offered this, slightly confusing, explanation for the change, “Now, all of the major U.S. movie studios, music labels and over 1,000 other global partners use Content ID to manage their content on YouTube. Because of the success of these ongoing technological efforts, we are able to increase the upload limit today.”
What we think he means is that content holders pressured YouTube into limit clips to ten minutes to try and stop[ people uploading whole feature films. Now YouTube’s content managing software is a bit better they can unclench a bit – but only a little bit.
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