EFF Calls for YouTube Viacom Victims
Viacom’s YouTube takedown was even more indiscriminate than ABS-CBN’s takedown, somehow sweeping videos completely unrelated to Viacom. If your video was one of them, the Electronic Frontier Foundation wants to hear from you.
As I’ve said before, I don’t care if Viacom wants to fall off the YouTube charts. I do care if they drag other people with them.
Does Youtube really even need Viacom?
Its not just youtube whose traffic is surging. Many of the video content websites have experienced an upswing. It’s interesting to read that Youtube’s early february traffic was greater than the combined traffic of all the network websites.
Youtube clones like http://www.dailymotion.com are also benefiting from the increased attention paid to these type sites. Interestingly there are even youtube-type free porn videos sites have popped up to take advantage of this phenomenon.
We can probably expect the big network websites to offer even more videos to try to compete in the future.
[...] is fanatical. The line between infringement and fair use is not so obvious, as evidenced by many of Viacom’s YouTube victims. “The issue is, how do we get that great content in front of new eyeballs, on new platforms, [...]
[...] satisfied with pulling their clips off YouTube (Twice. Indiscriminately.), Viacom is now suing YouTube owner Google for one billion dollars. That’s over half the [...]
As far as I know, DMCA takedowns require a sworn copyright claim. If so, Viacom has committed multiple counts of perjury.
By the way, so has ABS-CBN.
[...] really disappointed that they let people abuse the DMCA to protect themselves. First it was Viacom’s indiscriminate takedown notices, and now it’s some kid’s fake takedown notices. Want a video removed from YouTube? Send along [...]
[...] listen unless they were sued. Now let’s see them restore all those clips they pulled with no Viacom content whatsoever. Remember that frivolous DMCA takedowns carry legal [...]
[...] listen unless they were sued. Now let’s see them restore all those clips they pulled with no Viacom content whatsoever. Remember that frivolous DMCA takedowns carry legal [...]
[...] Viacom screwed a lot of people with their indiscriminate YouTube takedown, but at least this Stephen Colbert parody is back. Find out why on Inside Online Video. [...]
That’s why Im a proud member of the EFF ^_^
[...] threaten my people with slavery and death. Oh, Chad’s chosen his words carefully, Viacom. Perhaps you should have done the same. [...]
[...] is the most absurd case of DMCA abuse I’ve seen all year — and I’ve seen a lot this year. I’m laughing too hard to be angry right now. [...]
[...] That’s why their new streaming video sharing site, The Video Bay, will probably not honor frivolous DMCA takedown notices so zealously. They certainly won’t be one of Audible Magic’s DRM [...]
[...] acts of perjury, acts for which they may someday be held accountable. I’m sure the EFF would love to make that [...]
[...] who make stuff up instead of actually filing the paperwork required by law. Expect another rash of perjurous takedowns in petty retaliation. [...]
[...] in the first thirty days goes to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which spends a lot of time defending online video publishers against legal harassment from offline media. The album is distributed by [...]
[...] BayTSP CEO Mark Ishikawa, whose company sends all those indiscriminate takedown notices (a million a month!) to YouTube on behalf of Viacom and other studios, has a funny take on copyright law. [...]
[...] In fact, given how indiscriminately Viacom takes down YouTube videos, they’ll probably sue you for watching any clip on YouTube. [...]