Thread: So long Youtube, nice knowing you

Just a while ago, a friend of mine told me something weird had happened: Youtube was muting the sound track in our highschool senior year class video, supposedely because of copyright. But the video had just 2000 views, who the hell would notice or report it?

Since when does youtube care about that? We see videos with copyrighted songs all the time there. A quick google search threw me here: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives...dio_tracks.php

Discuss...

I tried to submit a video nearly two years ago of the Red Hot Chili Peppers performing on SNL, and they rejected it due to copyright concerns. I think that they've always cared, but with such a huge site they don't have the resources to police every single video. That's my guess anyway.

A site of that magnitude has to observe the copyright laws. After all, a law is a law. Even individuals have to observe the copyright laws!

Oooh, a new toy to play with
Wonder how good their audio fingerprinting is

Just a few thoughts
putting a couple of seconds of static at the beginning
playing with the EQ before uploading

*fires up audacity*

1 second of static at the beginning
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CNApuETPBrU

let's see what happens....

Taken from their blog:

January 14, 2009 | Posted by: The YouTube Team | Permalink
User Choice and Music Licensing

Music licensing can get very complicated, but we try to make your experience as simple as possible. We want you to have options when uploading videos with music in them. And if your video is subject to a copyright claim, you should have some choices too.

Previously, when a music label or other rights owner issued a copyright claim to block audio, the video was automatically taken down. Uploaders had two choices: dispute the claim (in the case of fair use, for example) or use our AudioSwap tool to replace the track with one from our library of pre-cleared music. Now we've added an additional choice. Instead of automatically removing the video from YouTube, we give users the option to modify the video by removing the music subject to the copyright claim and post the new version, and many of them are taking that option.

Our content management tools have revolutionized the ways in which users and content owners are distributing, marketing, and making money from video online. As we continue to build out this system, we are working to find the right balance between encouraging creativity and free expression and respecting the rights of copyright holders and the law.

The YouTube Team

In my opinion, I don't think Youtube gives a damn about what music we listen to, copywritten or not. However, the music industry has been up Youtube's ass for a very...very...long time. I wish people would understand the legalities behind situations like this before throwing their middle finger to Youtube.

Originally Posted by Ynot

1 second of static at the beginning
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CNApuETPBrU

let's see what happens....

Lul, bye Robbie.