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☖ Forums → Discussion Forum → Viacom sends thousands of illegitimate takedown notices to YouTube
Viacom sends thousands of illegitimate takedown notices to YouTube
2007-02-06, 10:44 PM #1
WATCH OUT THEY SAY SOME BAD WORDS :psyduck:

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/03/viacom_terrorizes_yo.html

Anyhoo apparently they searched for keywords that matched some of their copyrights and sent takedown notices for every one of the results, whether it was actually related or not.

Youtube complied, taking down stuff that had nothing to do with Viacom like user-recorded footage from videogames and the like.

gg youtube
2007-02-06, 11:05 PM #2
Wow, that's a high degree of ridiculous.
2007-02-06, 11:30 PM #3
Wonder if youtube would have complied before it was bought by Google.
2007-02-06, 11:48 PM #4
It does seem like this is happening a lot more now that Google is running things. It's not really surprising though.
Pissed Off?
2007-02-06, 11:51 PM #5
For some reason whenever I read this title I first see 'Thousand of illegitimate children take down YouTube" :confused:
2007-02-07, 12:15 AM #6
Originally posted by saberopus:
For some reason whenever I read this title I first see 'Thousand of illegitimate children take down YouTube" :confused:


The bastards! :argh:
2007-02-07, 1:01 AM #7
Somebody should send an illegitimate takedown notice to Viacom and see if they react...
Frozen in the past by ICARUS
2007-02-07, 6:25 AM #8
Originally posted by 'Thrawn[numbarz:
;786522']The bastards! :argh:


post of the week
eat right, exercise, die anyway
2007-02-07, 7:01 AM #9
Originally posted by lassev:
Somebody should send 100,000 illegitimate takedown notices to Viacom and see if they react...
Fixed.

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