Chapter 3: Continued.

As online videos become more popular the number of search engines that specialize in indexing videos has increased. More and more companies have been featuring their videos on news sites, web portals, social networks and blogs. YouTube’s success has been a result of its easy to use upload system and its growing community of people that submit their own videos. YouTube’s biggest issue has been video copyright protection. Many videos are being copied and then re uploaded without permission from the owner of that video. Many of these copyright infringements can be avoided if the up loader would give credit (cite the source) to the original owner in the video itself or the description. When I read the part about paying for or copying an essay online I thought “wow”. The definition of plagiarism is copying someone else’s written work or ideas and passing them off as their own without citing its source. I don’t see how someone could claim something they copy and pasted as their own. If there is a site where you couldn’t see the essay until you bought it I think that would make it harder to tell if it actually was plagiarized. Then I read how these papers are traced and thought it takes a lot of effort to try and get away with plagiarizing almost enough as to write the actual paper. As for the consequences I’ve never really heard of a person getting caught cheating, so I guess that’s why this still exists? When citing web sources it is important to be precise so you properly give credit where credit is due so you’re not plagiarizing because you were not able to cite it correctly. Information that is considered common knowledge does not have to be cited. It is also important to know the specific citing requirements of the college that you go to. 

These are the most viewed videos on youtube for this month. It has a movie trailer, 2 viral videos, and 2 music videos. If you look at the videos with the most views of all time you would see mostly music videos and few unique videos that were uploaded by people whose videos have become viral.