Copyright school??

[John Connor]

Seriously WTF!

I had an old ass video of Pen and Teller I uploaded back in circa 2008 on YouTube and now CBS made a copyright claim. I got the E-mail a couple weeks ago, log into YouTube now and have to prees a button saying there was copyright shit and then the fuckers made me take a copyright test! I am so pissed.

Google has completely destroyed YouTube!!! I wish they never sold out. Now my channel is hard to navigate and looks like shit.

What gets me is there are 1000's of copyrighted shit on YouTube that is never taken down. I'm able to play the same song all the time!






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[Mixolydian]

Don't copy that floppy

 

[John Connor]

10-4 good buddy. :awe:

 

[lxskllr]

Copyright test :^D

Copy/paste this into the form. Maybe you'll teach them something ;^)

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/misinterpreting-copyright.html

 

[Fenixgoon]

i got a bunch of copyright/dmca notices but all of mine are fair use, yet i have to waste a bunch of time and go through bullshit to argue that i'm making fair use. ridiculous if you ask me. i wish these companies couldn't just blindly mass-ID content and automatically label it as copyright infringing when it's not.

 

[Newbian]

Stop stealing you hot blonde pirate!

 

[zinfamous]

i got a bunch of copyright/dmca notices but all of mine are fair use, yet i have to waste a bunch of time and go through bullshit to argue that i'm making fair use. ridiculous if you ask me. i wish these companies couldn't just blindly mass-ID content and automatically label it as copyright infringing when it's not.

Just put together a nice, professional-looking invoice and bill them for your time. And just keep sending it to them. ...you'd be surprised how that sometimes works, just to get you to shut up.

My pops did that several years ago when Dish Network was harassing him for ~1 year over some bogus upcharge they were trying to claim. He got so sick of all the time wasted going through his previous bills and account information, re-sending the same documents over and over and all the time spent on the phone talking to different CSRs, he eventually started billing them. It took some time, and I think he was always requesting something absurd like $500 for his time, but they eventually mailed him a check for ~$7.

He framed it.

 

[poofyhairguy]

Lol copyright test?

 

[purbeast0]

i had the tribute video i made for my dads funeral on youtube to share with my aunts and uncles and other family.

after like 3 years i went to look at it, and i was wondering why the hell it had no music anymore. thought i had it on mute.

then i saw a note that said "this video has been muted due to using copywritten music" or some bs like that.

so dumb.

 

[Carson Dyle]

Google has completely destroyed YouTube!!! I wish they never sold out. Now my channel is hard to navigate and looks like shit.

I know, right? I used to make about $10-12k per month on YouTube, now it's barely $7k in a good month.

 

[pete6032]

LOL!!

 

[Printer Bandit]

vimeo > *


youtube has turned into a slutty teenage girl with tattoos.

 

[waffleironhead]

vimeo > *


youtube has turned into a slutty teenage girl with tattoos.

Your statement has now confused me.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Youtube copyright BS is so sporadic. There are entire albums on Youtube. Try to post a tiny video with a tiny clip of same album, it gets shut down. WTF?

I heard one trick is to slightly reduce or increase the speed of the sound track because these copyright claims are all automated and this messes up their algorithm.

The biggest problem I have with today's copyright laws is that enforcement does not even require them to do work. To actually put in a copyright claim it should work the same way as any other law. The "victim" should need to physically actually put in a claim and prove that it is their work and ask that it is removed. If the person does not comply, then it should go through a lawyer should the "victim" choose to go that route. Instead with copyright they can just have bots that do everything for them. Same deal with p2p/torrents. The actual owner of the movie should need to contact the ISP and handle all proceedings and there should be a requirement of proper proof like any other law would. Bots should not count as being legal binding.

It's too bad youtube is so popular and that there does not seem to be any viable alternative, since it actually sucks... it's just that it has the most content and is the most well known.