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Prince DMCAs YouTube To Block Radiohead Song

Posted by kdawson on from the purple-power dept.

Enigma2175 writes "CNN is reporting that videos from the Coachella music festival showing Prince covering Radiohead's 'Creep' have been removed by Prince's label, NPG records. Thom Yorke of Radiohead, when told of Prince's action, said 'Well, tell him to unblock it. It's our... song.' No comment from YouTube or Prince yet. Under the DMCA, YouTube is not required to verify the entity making a request is actually the copyright holder and this seems to be just another example of DMCA abuse." As the article points out, Prince seems to have a love-hate relationship with the Interwebs.

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  1. Re:There are 3 copyright claims in play by eneville · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's always a long day... 86400 doesn't fit into a short. OMG that's a cool sig. Although I'm not sure of the bit width of a short on a Alpha.
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  2. Re:There are 3 copyright claims in play by Curien · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Thanks, I stole it (slightly modified) from someone else.

    I just happen to have an Alpha. With Linux/GCC, short is 16 bits, int is 32 bits, and long is 64 bits.

    Regardless, a portable C program may only assume that short can hold values in the range -32767 through +32767. Anything else has the potential for overflow (which is undefined behavior with signed types).

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  3. re your sig by thermian · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You haven't taken into account a sidereal day, which is 86164 seconds

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  4. Re:let's settle this by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    True.

    If you don't have the balls to do your delivery straight and suffer the downmods of the ignorant, you don't deserve upmods either.

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  5. Re:There are 3 copyright claims in play by mabhatter654 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    he owns the copyright for his performance on stage... if it was shot by fans, they didn't have permission to record in that venue from the promoters so Prince's claim stands... like the parent said.

  6. Re:let's settle this by ILuvRamen · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks, you're right. I got modded offtopic or overrated for posting stuff that people didn't get. But instead of ruining the joke, I just posted that it's a reference to something and it's sposta be funny. Otherwise people would read it and be like "Basketball? Why would they solve it like that? That's a stupid idea. You're stupid!" -- for bonus points, what show are those last 2 lines from.

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