This is yet another rant and something entirely random that has been provided to you courtesy of my menial mind and usual 3AM boredom.  Before I begin, I already assumed the chick flipping you the bird has gotten your attention, so ha, sex and violence does sell.

Why is it that everywhere we look there’s re-postings of standard material.  Not to state that most material isn’t unique, but is it ever?  Let’s take YouTube as an example.  You search for one little video, say Eminem’s new video Beautiful, which is a very true song I might add.  You immediately bring up multiple results and most with just music, some with lyrics, but 75% with the same freggin’ video.  Granted that most of these individuals post the same crap, even though it’s already plentiful over the website anyhow, they are probably doing so due to the need of feeling wanted. To illustrate this fact, here is a few links to the same damn video, along with their re-posters:

• TUNESWORLD [link] (Even offering downloads, what the hell…)
• EminemTM [link] (Possibly the real Eminem, or maybe not)
• universalmusicgroup [link] (Duh!)
• MrLyricsMaster [link] (Just the text, no video, but plays the music)
• krazieboyj [link] (What the hell… just text, but it says (HD) hehe, that’s funny)

Now that is just five out of hundreds of videos that are copied, at least the audio anyhow.  So what drives these people to do this, is it lack of research to see if it’s already provided, is it the need to have watchers, followers, or simply people to look up to you, how about the need to be on the top of the listings?  Some companies, mainly new and inexperienced, utilize this sort of viral media to spread a message, sometimes ineffectively.  While some industries such as Universal Music (see above) succeed in this, only to be undermined by users such as TUNESWORLD.  Offering up tunes/music for a price, while they probably do have to pay royalties, though I am speculating, they still profit off of simply copying other videos.

Another random occasion I have ran upon, though possibly unintentional, was when searching for Photoshop tutorials.  As an example, do a search on Google for “Photoshop: Orb Tutorial” and see how many results you get, kind of astonishing isn’t it?  The fact is, around 50% of those tutorials are copied directly from another, around 25% of those are copied and slightly modified, and the final 25% is entirely unique to each other.

In the past I have read articles that discussed ways and reasons for re-posting content to the net.  And I would encourage anyone thinking of re-posting something to at least have a look at Google.  The point is, if re-posting is done in an efficient and expected manner, then people may not take notice.  There’s just nothing more frustrating than searching for something and coming up with hundreds of freggin’ results of the SAME CRAP… FREGGIN STOP IT ALREADY….