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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. Geographic inconsistency? by youthoftoday · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    After talking to friends round the world, I'm finding that the behaviour depends on geographic location. What do people see here? http://youtube.com/watch?v=eBGIQ7ZuuiU

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  2. Re:Don't forget... by Rei · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Grr, just noticed what I typed: Oahu! Oahu, not Maui :P Specifically, he flies across the islets on the east coast (the easiest to recognize is Mokolii -- "Chinaman's Hat"), climbs up on the China Walls back on the southeast side, then the next scenes are from Kualoa Ranch, and then he "camps" out most of the time on Kawela Bay, a few hundred feet from a highway and less than a mile from the Turtle Bay Resort.

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