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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. Ich bin Hitler by Looce · · Score: 5, Funny

    und ich bin erste!

    (first post, thread is now godwinned)

    1. Re:Ich bin Hitler by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apparently all of those videos on that page have been pulled. Including the pure white noise one. I wonder how they justify that one.

      Germany considers it too racist. There should have been a representative mix of white and black noise.

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  2. Uh-oh!! by Pike · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait till Hitler finds out about this!!! woooooohhh boy!!

    1. Re:Uh-oh!! by nine-times · · Score: 5, Funny

      Yeah, he's pretty pissed.

  3. Re:Such a wordsmith! by Cryacin · · Score: 2, Funny

    Identifacition?

    Really?

    What? That's a perfectly cromulent word that embiggens us all.

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  4. Re:Downfall is a really good movie by VTI9600 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah! I never would have heard about the movie and subsequently downloaded it from The Pirate Bay if not for the Youtube parodies too!

  5. Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! by DurendalMac · · Score: 4, Funny

    First they came for the Youtube videos, but I didn't speak up because I don't have any Youtube videos...

  6. Glad they got on that before anybody saw them.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...next up, the creators of Zero Wing request YouTube take down the All Your Base videos.

  7. Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! by The+Redster! · · Score: 2, Funny

    Then they came for the ISP's, but I did not speak up because

  8. Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 1, Funny

    See, this is just how it started in Nazi Germany, with the removal of youtube videos!

    No, that was "JewTube".

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  9. This comes at a very bad time by gyrogeerloose · · Score: 2, Funny

    Because a parody video of Hitler as Steve Jobs discovering the loss of the iPhone 4G prototype just must be made.

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  10. Oh yeah.. by The+Creator · · Score: 2, Funny

    The man playing Hitler in that movie does an amazing job.

    Then how come he still loses?

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  11. Re:Downfall is a really good movie by metacell · · Score: 4, Funny

    I watched different scenes on Youtube.

    Pretty strange movie, though. The actors do the same things over and over, and only the subtitling is different?!