As long as there are people like this, YouTube won't lose its soul

Judging from remarks Google CEO Eric Schmidt made at the National Association of Broadcasters meeting yesterday, Schmidt seems to envision a well-ordered world for YouTube.

A world in which content will either be big-media licensed or be so silly it wouldn't have a prayer of being licensed.

That's a far cry from the original intent of YouTube.

But then, people such as rebayona give me hope that maybe all is not lost. 

Yesterday, commenter rebayona noted this in response to my Virginia Tech tragedy- related post entitled Lack of Va. Tech shooting links on YouTube, Google Video shows licensing model is flawed.

He wrote:

"I uploaded to youtube a video captured from CNN en Español to complement a blog post I made today ... never get through. It was censored right away. Amazing."

But you know what? He now seems to have gotten this important video- a CNN-sourced cellphone video of the shootings..with the sound of gunshots..past the censors.

Here's a link to his description of what he has posted.

As for the clip, it's here.