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- Jaysus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+394Looks as if the MPAA should add some 15 year olds to their payroll.
- pizzatsf, on 10/12/2007, -3/+110Thats pretty scary, they even threatened to delete the accounts of the uploaders.
- dominasian, on 10/12/2007, -7/+94im should do this with all the pro MPAA videos i can find on youtube
- mindsnare, on 10/12/2007, -4/+76Bloody ridiculous considering you can download every single episode for free from the ABC website anyway. I guess YouTube doesn't do any research what so ever when a request like that is received.
I'll be interested to see what the chaser boys have to say about it in their next episode. - techdugger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+72goes to show how ridiculous the DMCA law is
- everynewday, on 10/12/2007, -3/+62According to copyright laws, places such as Youtube have no choice regarding the matter. If they recieve a copyright takedown notice, they have to take it down whether it's legit or not.
- Erowid, on 10/12/2007, -8/+56I dugg it just to spite you.
- insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -2/+41Sweet now we will see rivals sending fake takedown notice's against eachothers content. youTube is screwed.
- cwshea, on 10/12/2007, -1/+37We tried to grab a Chaser’s clip from YouTube , and it seems many are still missing due to the supposed copyright claim. Here’s one that survived:
"This video is no longer available" - mp3dog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34Little *****!!!
I love those Chaser's War On Everything clips. We don't get to see that show here in the U.S, so YouTube is the only option for me to see that stuff without having to download from some p2p network. - Tolzmaniac, on 10/12/2007, -1/+33It sure was fun watching the page scroll up when i dugg you down
- HalFTW, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32@mp3dog
You can download every episode from the official website. They podcast/videocast them all for anyone. You can subscribe to the feed/download the clips here:
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/vodcast/
Without any bs DRM btw. - Nick22, on 10/12/2007, -8/+39And this is why copyrights are *****.
- Phr00t, on 10/12/2007, -1/+27I work at a university that receives DMCA complaints and reactively disables internet connections accordingly. I wonder if I could get away sending many fake DMCA complaints, and get some of the management's internet connections turned off. That would be awesome... send some DMCA complaints that results in the network staffs' internet connections being disabled.
- daeyeth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26yeah but they don't even check if it's legit? I mean CMON, be professional...
- boombye, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26What an outrageous abuse of DMCA! O wait, this was supposed to surprise me how?
- sharkbaitbobby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21But can't you get sued or something for illegal use of the DMCA? Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be like http://digg.com/offbeat_news/YouTubers_Sue_Viacom_Over_Stephen_Colbert_Clip or what Michael Crook did?
However it says this kid is in Australia, so if that's why nothing can happen to him, then I agree. The DMCA is ridiculous. - checksumz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25Hah, that last video got taken down aswell.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17"Looks as if the MPAA should add some 15 year olds to their payroll."
Sometimes I think they already are. - monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17do it...you won't get caught
- Strd, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16It seems YouTube will be so overloaded with fake takedown notices now, they will not be able process real one. Interesting, how it will turn out...
- noisymime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12So, under the guise of DMCA, YouTube received and actioned a takedown notice from an Australian, for a show that was made in Australia? Sure I know we signed the FTA, but why do I feel like every day makes me more American?
- One annoyed Ausmerican - bot001220, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Threatened? My account was deleted thanks to this "prank". Guess I won't be uploading any more episodes for you guys then.
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Everyone should send fake takedown notices to bog down YouTube's administrative staff with tons of paperwork. This will make the current takedown procedure ineffective and content owners will actually have to reasonably prove their ownership instead of behaving like ***** companies like Viacom, issuing blanket warnings which have included many original and fair-use productions they have no legal claim to.
- kitta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Meanwhile, CTV Perth wishes someone would upload their shows so they could request they be removed and finally feel loved.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15HAHAHAHA it says "Heres a clip that survived" then i click play and it says "This video is no longer available" haha so good.
- NinjaPig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Let the You Tube civil war begin!
- deanau, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10This ***** caused my youtube account to be suspended - which deleted around 42 videos of my own. I've reposted the deleted videos here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CbojZs7XKU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pfOtDmyqk - bleutuna, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Uh...no it wouldn't. Just do a simple follow-up call, because the companies in question won't have some telemarketing phone operator submitting these requests. It'll be a lawyer or someone of some clout within the company. So any follow-up call would go directly the person in charge here.
- NYG1988, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Sending fake copyright takedown requests in illegal in both Australia and in the United States. I hope this kid didn't reveal anything personal about his location, otherwise his "prank" could turn into "jailtime".
- insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Problem is using a public hotspot makes you anonymous. As long as you only use a hotspot once, your not going to get caught.
- bovox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Yes, but sending a fake notice to Youtube is fraud. Depending on what country you're from, and how prosecutors spin it, it can be a felony crime. I wouldn't be surprised if this Aussie had done this in Texas and been sentenced to 5 years in prison.
- monospaced, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Makes sense actually. It covers their ass, and everyone knows (even YouTube and their parent company) that the clips still exist and will reappear eventually.
- fullphaser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4considering the upload users were warned, I don't think that would work.
- bigboehmboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4nahh it's cheaper to employ chimpanzees
- dforty3, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Gee, you mean corporations aren't really out to preserve the rights of the people? They are are loyal to other corporations instead? No, it can't be! What does this mean for our corporate media? Will their integrity come into question now?
Not likely, I'm sure this will be buried too so most people will never even know. Again. - megablue, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3it is the most "effective" way to keep track of "copyrighted' materials.
- Zivko, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6From what I understand, they can't show parts of the show that have copyrighted music in the sequence outside of Australia. In this ad Road Test, they used the song 'Flashdance', which was telecast on Australian television, but not included in the video podcast.
- spimby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The answer to this problem is for millions of 15 year olds from outside the US (who have no part in the DMCA) to flood Youtube and others with fake DMCA notices.... so YouTube etc will have to figure out a better way to handle this than to just take stuff down without doing any kind of investigation what so ever.
- pagemaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4***** the RIAA
- jmnormand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2this is not entirely true. to my no lawyer understanding, a take down notice is a way of shielding service providers from liability of copyright infringement. ignoring the notice will simply remove this shield and thus make the provider liable to be sued directly, however ignoring a notice the provider believes to be inaccurate is not in and of it self illegal. however take down notices are official court documents and thus filing them inaccurately is consider perjury and likely in cases such as this fraud, both of which are felonies. perjury alone could be up to 5 years in prison. unfortunately its unlikely any criminal action will ever be taken so civil lawsuits are the only recourse.
- deanau, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hi there,
This email is to inform you that your video(s) belonging to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, have been reinstated. Australian Broadcasting Corporation has informed us that the individual submitting the copyright infringement notification was not authorized to act on their behalf. If your account was terminated as a result of this action, it has now been reinstated and the incident will not count against your account's standings.
YouTube strictly enforces the content removal provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. All takedown requests must be accompanied by a statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. This request fulfilled these requirements and the content was removed accordingly.
Individuals submitting takedown notifications to YouTube are also informed that under Section 512(f) any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity is infringing may be subject to liability.
We are constantly working to improve the safe guards in our copyright program and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Sincerely,
The YouTube Team
My love for youtube prospers. - insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Just to follow up, the kid has since apologised to the ABC and he is helping them work with YouTube to restore the videos.
- grumpyrain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2[tin foil hat]
I wonder if this 15 year old had a remarkable resemblence to Chaz. - insomniac8400, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The problem is if you charge people who do this with fraud, your going to have to throw someone in jail everytime a legitimate company wrongly lists one instance of someone else's work in their list of thousands of videos. I doubt that is going to happen.
- rick63, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1http://www.videoclipscity.com/video/IXIocsGeLQM/Th ...
The Chaser makes a reference to YouTube and the 15-year-old kid that pretended to be the copyright holder to get Chaser videos on YouTube removed due to an apparent copyright infringement - africansk8er, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hey, this dude got my video from the Chaser taken down. It got front page on digg and everything. I don't know whether to laugh or to hate the guy...
- bluedog242, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The Chaser work may be off YouTube but you can still watch them at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/video/default.htm or subscribe to their Video podcast http://abc.net.au/tv/chaser/war/vodcast/chaser_mp4.xml
For those Newbies to Chaser check out the Hilary Clinton whistle stop interview - manmademark, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3"..it seems many are still missing due to the supposed copyright claim. Here’s one that survived"
Video: This video is no longer available - acceptab1euname, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I digg down the "i'm probably going to get dugg down" people, just to spite them :)
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