Wesnoth trailer banned from Youtube by Viacom

Duffchong · Post by **Duffchong** » February 9th, 2007, 5:00 am

Well, not exactly. What's up with this? When I tried to watch the Wesnoth trailer ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIt69vznegs ) this message appears: This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Viacom International Inc.

EDIT: Here is the only information I could find on it ( http://media.seekingalpha.com/article/26010 ), but it doesn't explain why the Wesnoth trailer was cut.

EDIT: After reading around, it looks like there is a lot of litigation occurring between Viacom and the Google execs who now own Youtube. I assume that since Viacom requested that 100,000 videos be taken off of Youtube, that the selection was automated and some how the Wesnoth trailer got swept up in the algorithm.

Post by **Ken_Oh** » February 9th, 2007, 6:34 am

Weird.

Post by **Kestenvarn** » February 9th, 2007, 6:54 am

Repost the thing and send an email to the admins, in my opinion.

catwhowalksbyhimself · February 9th, 2007, 7:34 am

Reposting could get him banned. Not a good idea.

There is a proper procedure, which involves signing a legal document and sending it to them. I'm sending a pm to them about it, though, and recommend that others do the same.

Post by **zookeeper** » February 9th, 2007, 9:09 am

Youtube sucks, apparently. Let's just host the trailer somewhere else and update links on the site and forums?

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » February 9th, 2007, 10:23 am

catwhowalksbyhimself wrote:Reposting could get him banned. Not a good idea.

There is a proper procedure, which involves signing a legal document and sending it to them. I'm sending a pm to them about it, though, and recommend that others do the same.

Excellent. That'll show them how strong is the community.

Duffchong · Post by **Duffchong** » February 9th, 2007, 1:24 pm

I've also sent a PM to the creator of the trailer, who is probably the one best suited to getting the video back up somewhere.

EDIT- And on a different note, I wouldn't mind if a moderator changed the title of this thread something more informative like 'Wesnoth trailer banned from Youtube' or whatever you can think.

-> What i might be working on · Post by **Eleazar** » February 9th, 2007, 1:38 pm

Duffchong wrote:EDIT- And on a different note, I wouldn't mind if a moderator changed the title of this thread something more informative like 'Wesnoth trailer banned from Youtube' or whatever you can think.

You can do that by editing your first post.

TheChosenOne · Post by **TheChosenOne** » February 9th, 2007, 6:49 pm

Oh man, wesnoth trailer banned? Don't they know that this is a free game? zzz

Post by **Viliam** » February 9th, 2007, 11:53 pm

All your Wesnoth base are belong to Viacom...

Some related links:
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/20 ... ome-video/
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005109.php

Post by **Maeglin Dubh** » February 10th, 2007, 1:02 am

More.

Cuyo Quiz · Post by **Cuyo Quiz** » February 10th, 2007, 1:06 am

All your keep are belong to Viacom...

All your village are belong to Viacom...

All your castle base are belong to Viacom...

This has potential.

Post by **turin** » February 10th, 2007, 1:12 am

Irritating, but not surprising. (Naw, a giant media conglomerate screwed over the little guy?

)

catwhowalksbyhimself · February 12th, 2007, 2:01 am

And the stupid website won't let me long in anyways, so they're not only pulling off legitimate videos, but they can't even get they're stupid website to work.

I used to like youtube, but I only go to it now when I have no other chose, so it's probably good that the trailer goes elsewhere.

Post by **irrevenant** » February 12th, 2007, 7:36 am

From their website:

Counter-Notification

If you elect to send us a counter notice, to be effective it must be a written communication provided to our designated agent that includes substantially the following (please consult your legal counsel or see 17 U.S.C. Section 512(g)(3) to confirm these requirements):

1. A physical or electronic signature of the subscriber.
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled.
3. A statement under penalty of perjury that the subscriber has a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
4. The subscriber's name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that the subscriber consents to the jurisdiction of Federal District Court for the judicial district in which the address is located, or if the subscriber's address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which the service provider may be found, and that the subscriber will accept service of process from the person who provided notification under subsection (c)(1)(C) or an agent of such person.

Such written notice should be sent to our designated agent as follows:

DMCA Complaints
YouTube, Inc.
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Second Floor
San Bruno, CA 94066
Fax: 650.872.8513
Email: copyright@youtube.com

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. Please also be advised that we enforce a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscribers who are repeat infringers.