Mark Cuban might have been right
about the google acquisition of youtube
Uh oh. So, I posted this video on my youtube page of this old thing I had stored on my camera of a week 17 Saints-Jaguars game where there was a last second TD by the Saints on a craaaazy play with like 5 pitches and laterals and what not. That was followed up with the Saints kicker missing the extra point and ending the team’s season with no playoffs. Just got this email:
Dear Member:
This is to notify you that we have removed or disabled access to the following material as a result of a third-party notification by National Football League claiming that this material is infringing:
One of the craziest NFL endings ever
Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account. In order to avoid future strikes against your account, please delete any videos to which you do not own the rights, and refrain from uploading additional videos that infringe on the copyrights of others. For more information about YouTube’s copyright policy, please read…
Illuminati for my mind, soul, and my body. And while I’m quoting lines from classic Jay-Z songs, Forum Blue and Gold is doing 22 two’s but it’s 88 44’s about Lakers.
11 Responses to “Mark Cuban might have been right”
Oct.25 at 5:31 pm
Lemon says:
Dude, I’m pretty sure that’s bullshit. You can post photo’s from a sporting event so why not your own video? You should email a query for clarification…
Oct.25 at 5:51 pm
albie1kenobi says:
…unless you filmed a broadcast game on tv with your own camera…
Oct.25 at 9:12 pm
SRSharp says:
Well, I’d assume that posting a video of the game would be illegal, because whatever television network the game is on has the rights to the footage of that game. While it seems messed up on the basis of common sense, in a legal sense, I’m pretty sure the NFL is right. Sucks though, doesn’t it?
Oct.26 at 10:23 am
Sam Rubenstein says:
If doing something illegal is a crime, then I guess I am guilty.
Oct.26 at 11:59 am
Creech says:
- I don’t understand how youtube plans to keep an audience without copyrighted video & audio. - Do they troll through newly added videos to find stuff to take down? - Did someone report you to the administrators? - I say post it again under a different screenname & see if anyone notices.
Oct.26 at 12:36 pm
Joel O's says:
Geez, Sam, I feel ya. If you guys haven’t noticed, tonnnss of stuff have been taken - and are being taken - off Youtube, ever since the Google acquisition. Will it stop people from Youtubing? I don’t think so. But its making it a lot less fun, and Youtube is being increasingly anal about these “legalities’. The beauty of Youtube is the fact that any one can post practically any video, and share it with everyone else to see. This is (was) their competitive advantage, and by forsaking it, they are alienating everyone who uses Youtube. By preventing people from doing what they’ve had the *freedom* of doing, Youtube will sooner or later lose whatever audience it has gained. Sooner or later, some other video sharing website (sans lame copyright legal bullsh^t) is going to come along and host whatever vidoeos Youtube doesn’t want to - and Youtube/Google will lose their market share. Go Cubes!
(…and better luck in next year’s playoffs)
Oct.26 at 1:37 pm
Escott says:
Copyright infringement? That’s lame. Let Sam do his damn thing.
Oct.26 at 4:36 pm
Russ Bengtson says:
Crime is not a crime.
Oct.26 at 4:49 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
youtube got it’s big break on the “Lazy Sunday” video, which of course NBC forced them to take down. The reaction was why not just let people see that video for free, since it promotes SNL?
Remember when people were supposedly getting arrested for file sharing with the next-gen Napsters like morpheus and grokster?
Oct.26 at 8:11 pm
Joel O's says:
Exactly - now look at us today and everyone has our MP3 players; by yesterday’s logic, we all are criminals right now.
Oct.26 at 9:07 pm
Sam Rubenstein says:
Update: I have had a second video pulled. The Plaxico TD to beat the Eagles this year, otherwise known as IN YOUR FACE SALAAM.
Thankfully it will remain on my DVR until the day I die.