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YouTube's Unspoken Linking Policy For Copyright Infringers

Posted by timothy on from the doesn't-seem-unreasonable-from-here dept.

Hackajar writes "Valleywag has an interesting post detailing YouTube's new way to deal with copyrighted music videos, removing embed tags and linking it to the official content on site. What's significant here is the lack of video removal by YouTube staff. From the post, "Uploads of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading "Contains content from [insert studio here]"". They use a Modest Mouse music video from a third party to illustrate the new change."

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  1. Re:I don't see the link in the video example... by Ethan+Allison · · Score: 5, Informative

    Shows up either way. It's right here.

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  2. embedding not really 'disabled' by Sirius25 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's funny that they say "Embedding disabled by request".

    They removed the ready-made embed tag, but you can still easily embed it using the video ID from the URL.
    Like for this Modest Mouse video, just copy the embed tag from a non-disabled video & replace it's ID with HLkC8l3nJro ....

  3. No Embed? Fixed that for ya... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=HLkC8l3nJro

    becomes

    http://youtube.com/v/HLkC8l3nJro

    Enjoy.

    --AC

    1. Re:No Embed? Fixed that for ya... by spyka · · Score: 4, Informative
      Not quite.

      Yes, the video will still appear to embed - the player will show and the still of the video will be displayed. However any effort to play the video just results in:

      We're sorry, this video is no longer available
      And this isn't anything new