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Feb 04
YouTube Just Took Down Viacom Videos
YouTube, owned by Google, has just taken down the 100,000+ videos that Viacom marked as infringing their copyrights. I will now work to find all important Colbert Report and Daily Show clips from other video services. This also makes me think of a better system for VidMirror that would be able to determine if a video is down or not. I will let you know if I make any progress on that.
Videos to find or upload:
submit a new video to find
Videos found:
Internet is a Series of Tubes (Net Neutrality) - Daily Show
Stephen Colbert Explains ATT/Cingular - Colbert Report
Have any others that should be added to the list? Find a video somewhere other than YouTube? Comment or use the contact form. I love that the Cingular video is still on Google Video.
Did you hear that some of the videos were home videos, not Viacom copyrights?
http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/?guid=20070202125544
Hi, I’m curious to know why you picked those two videos out of all the stewart/colbert ones. Here’s one that’s user generated and still up on YouTube that relates to the ones you’ve chosen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fqr7GqPwfo
HOTI45
Hands Off the Internet Coalition
[...] What’s always been ridiculous with YouTube’s copyright enforcement is that the few times it even tries to enforce it, it usually deleted tons of legitimate content, with this incident being the worst. It appears that CBS entered the names of its shows into the search engine, and everything that came up, they demanded it be removed. Jason is trying to build a list of videos that were deleted (it’s obviously in very early stages) and considering a feature for VidMirror that would detect when a video is deleted and replace it with the same video from another service. [...]
We’ve got a news roundup and another list of legit videos that were taken down over here:
http://toptensources.com/topten/youtube-and-viacom