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Adverts Mysteriously Appended to YouTube Clips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the should-have-thought-this-through dept.

hey0you0guy writes "For the past few months copyrighted clips of shows have been edited to include advertisements for Gawker Media. These clips have been uploaded to the video sharing site YouTube by a user going by the handle Belowtheradar. These clips are then being linked to by Gawker itself: 'Gawker.com, for example, on Thursday featured a YouTube clip from ABC's talk show The View. At the beginning of the video, there is an ad for Gawker. On Wednesday, Valleywag posted a link to a video of television satirist Stephen Colbert talking about Wikipedia. At the beginning of that video there is an ad for Valleywag, a blog dedicated to Silicon Valley gossip.' CNet contacted the copyright holders for the videos (which range from NBC to Apple), and mostly received responses of 'we're looking into it.' At least two groups did confirm they did not give permission for this kind of advertisement."

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  1. Adverts Mysteriously Appear in Inbox by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    n/m

  2. it is mysterious by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Funny

    i wonder how they got there. i wonder if anyone will ever know. maybe leonard nimoy will do a show about it.

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  3. Give them some credit by TodMinuit · · Score: 5, Funny

    They didn't cause a bomb scare.

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    1. Re:Give them some credit by Headcase88 · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not true. I was watching one of those ads and right in the middle of it my computer exploded. Luckily no one was hurt but my Sony battery was reduced to ashes.

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  4. Oh noes by Ravear · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm in ur tube... advertizing ur vid3oz

  5. Re:Like YouTube at the Micro Level by The+Ultimate+Fartkno · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, you! You with the fancy logic and common sense! You get away from here with all that nonsense! This is Slashdot, fella, and we don't need someone coming around here and muddying up the message. YouTube runs on kitten farts and moonbeams, not MONEY! It represents the death of Big Entertainment and NOTHING ELSE! Power to the open-sourced people and death to the MPAA! Forget your shoveled-out Hollywood crap like Pan's Labyrinth and Children of Men, the future of entertainment is in the hands of the masses and we are the future! Ten thousand videos of tweenage girls singing "Fergalicious" into soup ladles can't be wrong!

    FREEEEDOOOOMMMM!!

  6. Re:Shocking! by TobyRush · · Score: 2, Funny

    This is an outrage!

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