YouTube gets terrorized by talkbackTHAMES

[Xarea]

Hundreds of videos of The It Crowd had to be removed after talkbackTHAMES (part of the Freemantle Media Group) threatened to take action.

Owned, really.

"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Fremantlemedia Group Limited"

Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYK1eLPdIc


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 Fremantlemedia Group Limited claiming that this material is infringing:

IT Crowd Ad :: Revised: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXcDT7zr5ak

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 the Copyright Tips guide.

If you elect to send us a counter notice, please go to our Help Center to access the instructions.

Please note that under Section 512(f) of the Copyright Act, any person who knowingly materially misrepresents that material or activity was removed or disabled by mistake or misidentification may be subject to liability.

Sincerely,
YouTube, Inc.

[Virgin Mary]

I always get those emails, they say they'll take action but all they do is delete your account.

[You]

I always get those emails, they say they'll take action but all they do is delete your account.
Which is taking action. :rolleyes:

[Rizla,]

They make it sound like they're going to sue you though.

[Kardan]

YouTube are always taking videos down because of copyright.

[Virgin Mary]

Which is taking action. :rolleyes:
It was equity!!!!!!!!!

[Simmzay]

Youtube's been ruined by all the video removals, it used to be so much better.

[Kardan]

Notice how it's slowly turning into Google, with the "Did you mean" and the highlighting of the words you typed and such.

I agree that it used to be much better.

[Aces]

Google is just messin youtube up, it's terrible nowadays :(

[2hd.]

Ah well, It's not like The IT Crowd was ever a good tv show..

[alexxxxx]

Google have to delete them, or they'll get sued.

[Matt.]

I love the it crowd. I have been told there is another series coming soon :). I just done a quick search on google and there are still on there :).

[Wootzeh]

I don't see how it's getting worse, YouTube is ran by the same people, just Google own it now.

[Ed.]

Yeah - but youtube dont want to get sued for the users copyright breaches do they?

[Wootzeh]

Yeah - but youtube dont want to get sued for the users copyright breaches do they?
Who were you talking to then? :S

[Ed.]

Youtube's been ruined by all the video removals, it used to be so much better.

That is what i was replying to.

[Mr.OSH]

They make it sound like they're going to sue you though.

What kind of gain would they get suing a random person who is one of probably hundreds of people who does that everyday? There would be no point in it. To be honest 99.99% of the time if someone says they will sue you its an idol threat.

[Agent 47]

Damn, I liked watching the IT crowd on YouTube.

[Bear-Max]

What kind of gain would they get suing a random person who is one of probably hundreds of people who does that everyday? There would be no point in it. To be honest 99.99% of the time if someone says they will sue you its an idol threat.
Very true. It's the same with illegal music downloading--they're never going to get everybody so they have to go after the services that provide it: Morpheus, Kazaa, Limewire. With the videos the production companies are going to sue Youtube, not you.

However there is a possibility that they'll make an example of a few users in order to deter people from doing the same.

[Simmzay]

I don't see how it's getting worse, YouTube is ran by the same people, just Google own it now.
It's very simple. They remove videos they normally wouldn't of in the past, whether it be copyright issues or of the wrong nature. I'd put it down to it being a victim of its own success, because it's gotten so big these changes were implemented. But still, as much as I understand the changes I still feel it makes the community much worse.

[Shawnstra]

Yep, i'd prefer the old youtube.

[womanizer]

I got those emails when habbo ordered utube to remove my videos lol.

[Virgin Mary]

I found Google to be slow at removing videos when they took over. Apart from recently it seems like they've hired staff to remove videos every minute of the day.

[mat64]

What's your argument exactly? If a corporation such as YouTube and many of the others are threatened with legal action, Of which seriously cripple them because of such a payout could happen. They are going to take action to avoid it. Thing is you've just got to keep an eye out for the new Video hosting sites and see what's on them, It will be a while before they get complaints for copyright infringements. Or alternatively why not just download a video from YouTube whist it's still on if you know it's going to be removed - Vixy.net (http://www.vixy.net) is one that can be used.