Friday, November 13, 2009

Youtube.com and Copyright BS

I'm currently debating on closing my personal page on youtube. I can't tell you number of times I've posted video's that took hours to create,edit and post. Then a few days later some mindless soccer mom in Nebraska flags one of my video's as offensive or even worst I get hit with a copyright infringement notice and the video is removed from the site. Whatever happened to freedom of speech? It puzzles me that youtube allows people to vlog about sexually themed topics that should be censored for younger audiences but those videos stay posted for years with millions of views. Another thing about the site that I find totally bogus are the huge numbers of ass shaking video's and other video's of adult rated content. If you find 1 persons content offensive then every video should have a rating. Recently a video that I shot co-produced & directed was removed for copyright infringement. I purposely added my personal logo proving ownership rights of the video. The video was titled "Lowrider" and featured the song Lowrider by War. It received over 50,000 views in only a year on the site. And then without warning it was removed. I've seen over video's that appeared on the site but have there audio removed because of copyright violations. So why am I so special? Here's the video.

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