In an effort to play a little catch-up on the "Chef is dead!" saga (like you can read at TV Squad), I came across a bit of troubling news. Not surprising, but troubling, nonetheless.
Now that the dust has settled over the South Park Scientology episode, the good folks at YouTube removed the video. Oddly enough, it took them over a week to figure out that the whole world was downloading it for what appears do be publicity reasons. Hey, it got on here, didn't it?
Well, no more. Any instances of South Park on YouTube seem to have disappeared.
Cooler heads have prevailed, and now Viacom's property rights are secure. We're still gonna get mad Google hits because of people looking for the video, but there's nothing we can do, outside of stealing content.
Well, besides whine about it. Stupid Xenu, it's all his fault.
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Well, yes, uploading copyri... (Below threshold)1. Posted by donsurber | March 29, 2006 9:43 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Well, yes, uploading copyrighted material is not only a violation of terms but illegal. I trust you intend to pay a royalty for each time someone hits that post
1. Posted by donsurber | March 29, 2006 9:43 PM |
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Posted on March 29, 2006 21:43
2. Posted by James Joyner | March 29, 2006 10:30 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The video was up for quite a while. I had it on OTB several weeks ago (see the comments section).
I understand Comedy Central's desire to protect the future marketability of the episode for syndication. I would think YouTube would be liable for the copyright issues; I can't imagine that linking to YouTube's material--which, for all one might know is licensed--would be problematic.
2. Posted by James Joyner | March 29, 2006 10:30 PM |
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Posted on March 29, 2006 22:30
3. Posted by Hambles | March 30, 2006 7:46 AM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
For those who still haven't seen it yet, the South Park Scientology episode is available to download at the excellent anti-Scientology site Operation Clambake, located at http://www.xenu.net. (Scroll right down to the bottom of the front page and you'll see the links). As far as I'm aware, Matt & Trey gave that site express permission to host the episode, so it's perfectly legal.
Take THAT, you fascist Xenu-worshipping pricks.
3. Posted by Hambles | March 30, 2006 7:46 AM |
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Posted on March 30, 2006 07:46