__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 02 April 2007 13:55 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> "Mysterious company" censors unflattering Steve Jobs video
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>> | While Robert X. Cringely says that the posting of five minutes of
>> | the show was probably in breach of copyright, he hadn't complained
>> | and neither had the programme maker Oregon Public Broadcasting.
>> |
>> | The take down notice came from an outfit called NBD Television,
>> | which neither Cringely or Oregon Public Broadcasting had heard of.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38644
>>
>
> I wonder if these copy protect people have folk watching every video on
> youtube to make sure nothing copy protected is played. They can't do it
> only by a word search because many a post is named differently to the
> contents.
They have even removed an OLPC video, quite blindly. Viacom requested the
takedown of 100,000 videos and I think that Google promptly did this
unselectively, over the weekend. Go to YouTube, search for "Viacom" and see
the effect of 'false positives', in the form of video rants.
> There are apparently 210000 videos on youtube, some of those are the same
> video renamed and reposted, some chopped up (the dull bits taken out etc).
I thought they had many more. Putting the figure above to add perspective,
Viacom may have really emptied YouTube. What I hate the most is the fact
that many of my references to YouTube (including embedment in Web page) must
have broken. I don't even know which one...
> It can't be an easy job trying to pick out the protected ones.
>
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