EFF blasts YouTube 'massacre'

Wed Feb 04, 2009 1:51 pm » by **7hidden7agenda7**

And the streets ran red with the blood of the innocent and guilty alike. Such unfettered horrors unleashed upon the world (wide web) as have never been witnessed by mankind itself. Wo betide, gnashings of teeth and a host of similarly fashioned words designed to leave you with unquestioning dread! FEAR the wrath of youtube for it's vengefull wake of destruction is indescriminate & unquenchable. Run! Flee for your VERY LIVES!! Lest you endure the excrusiating pain that awaits your fragile parts :nails:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/16/20090204/ttc-eff-blasts-youtube-massacre-6315470.html
>>>EFF blasts YouTube 'massacre'
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VNU Net Shaun Nichols in San Francisco
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a campaign against YouTube after a recent takedown of videos at the request of Warner Music Group. Skip related content
The human rights organisation said that the takedown led to the removal not only of infringing videos, but of many which were legally posted and protected under fair use laws.
Among the videos cited by the EFF were clips of teenagers singing Winter Wonderland and an a cappella song performance.
YouTube's takedown policy has long been a source of controversy. TV studios and record companies claim that the site does not do enough to police content, while users and online rights backers such as the EFF blame the site for being too quick to remove original content without first reviewing the video.
Both sides base their arguments on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a 1998 US law which dictates the terms for posting and protecting copyrighted materials online.
The EFF is also asking YouTube to expedite an upgrade to the content identification system it uses to recognise videos which potentially infringe on copyright.
"It is clear from the Warner Music experience that YouTube's Content ID tool fails to separate the infringements from the arguable fair uses," wrote EFF senior staff attorney Fred von Lohmann.
"And while YouTube offers users the option to dispute a removal (if it's an automated Content ID removal) or send a formal DMCA counter-notice (if it's an official DMCA takedown), many YouTube users, lacking legal help, are afraid to wave a red flag in front of Warner Music's lawyers."<<<

Wed Feb 04, 2009 2:56 pm » by **Huge1234**

shit like this just makes me laugh

i laugh my ass off cos people still to do business with these companies... even after show of greed like this

i hope its not too long before people wake up from their slumber... i hope its not too long before greedy instances like this go unpunnished... i hope its not too long before the internet retalliates in the best way it can... with a show of utter defiance... a united effort to carpet bomb youtube with 500,000 instances of the same copyright infringement that just got deleted.... then a huge boycott campaign of their products until they publically apologise to us... via a nice video from them posted at youtube

we need to let these big companies know we not their bitches... theyre our bitches... we dont need them to survive... but they definately need us... they should also be made to mention this in the grovelling apology video too....

sooner or later theyll just get sick of removing videos and then we win

Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:39 pm » by **Towelie**

I remember not long ago, Warner made them remove anything with the Happy Birthday song, once somethings been seen by the public it should be in the public domain. (happy birthday ones the worst lol, stopping childrens birthday vids that have the song on it.)