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EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies

Posted by kdawson on from the end-is-near dept.

Locke2005 writes "In what promises to be one of the quickest threads to become Godwin'ed, YouTube has pulled scores of parodies of the 'Hitler Finds Out' scene from the movie The Downfall. Ironically, I had never heard of this movie before this — and now I want to watch it." Here is the EFF complaint. David Weinberger has posted some details on Google's Content Identification tool, which is being used in the shotgun takedowns.

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  1. Happy Birthday Adolph by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

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    #In Memory of Adolf Hitler#
    We will always remember
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  2. Re:MS Flight SImulator X parody by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow! Something totally un-MS related and some fucktard still finds a way to slip it into the conversations. What a fucking zealot.

    You, sir, make those Jehovah Witness kooks look like mere amateurs.