YouTube missing videos??? WTF?

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YouTube missing videos??? WTF?

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I'm really starting to dislike YouTube. In the last 2-3 days or so I've been noticing a lot of my fav videos or type of videos have begun disappearing. I get error messages like: "We're sorry but the video you selected is no longer available".

It's really annoying, because I like watching videos on Airplanes, Movie trailers and old cartoons from the 80's like the Incredible Hulk before working out. :oops: :lol: Hey whatever motivates me, right?

Anyways, does anyone know whether they started some campaign to pull off all videos that actually attracted visitors to their site or something? AT this rate, I"ll be jumping ship to MetaCafe or whatever it's called REAL soon.

What happened here? Legal issues? Links?
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All that sort of stuff seems like prime target for copyright infringement. If it passed the high standards (:lol:)of to be featured American television then you should know there are people most likely being paid just to find content posted to sites like YouTube who post take-down notices.
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That is what I figured, but then again, I thought copyright expired in 20 years, which is why the Hulk cartoon's and heman cartoons were allowed to be played, cause they came out in 1984.

Also, a lot of videos which were taken from passengers on airplanes, like over the wing shots, cockpit views, etc are also removed and yet there are some episodes of TLC and Discovery "Seconds from disaster" still playing, and they are still copyrighted AFAIK.

Just seems to be some kind of random removal of movies is all I was saying...some have been on YouTube for ages, so why they would all of a sudden start removing them...is what made me wonder if anyone here heard of such a campaign set out by youtube to remove copyright pics.
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Well they were working on automated processes to remove copyrighted content. Maybe the algorithm is complete and has just been rolled out.
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Hockey wrote:I thought copyright expired in 20 years...
Holy crap dude you need to keep up on tech news! These greedy groups have gone so far as to copyright "Happy Birthday" and want to charge for every time it's sung. Lots of people will literally stoop to any low level just to make money. Twenty years? That's a drop in the bucket now from what I faintly remember reading maybe three or four years ago?

Any way do a look up on copyright length. It's dramatically increased. For example all the stories Disney are still copyrighted I think? I don't want to get too in to politics (there are some iron clad rules around here for better or worse :roll:) though if you do the research you'll be amazed at how much these companies/corporations/groups are trying to lock down content.

I think I've read in the semi-recent past that some corporations are actually somehow claiming I think patents for genes...GENES dude! How the heck do you patent mother nature? :|

But then again we live in a world where if a large company runs out of any one part they need for their factory they literally loose thousands of dollars a minute that they aren't producing parts. I'm not a conspiracy theory nut but realistically people really have been conspiring to great depths. I used to be surprised at a lot of things in life, now I just chuckle when I hear these sort of things people come up with. :?
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Hockey wrote:I get error messages like: "We're sorry but the video you selected is no longer available".
GTA IV does their own nice little play on YouTube in-game, but the results of censorship are far more drastic. :P
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Hockey wrote:I thought copyright expired in 20 years
Your numbers are a bit off: in the US they extended it with 20 years, from 50 to 70. Edit: Ah, actually not in US (Starting to count after the author dies.)
It's good that their legislation cannot be influenced by rich companies with monetary interests in long copyright, or in 2018 (1998, when the act was passed + 20) they will re-extend it yet again.
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