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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. its 4:fuckin:20 SMOKE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Victory!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ahh, dragging out that old war again. Can I assume that Western forces are about to announce that the war in the Middle East can't be won.

  3. Who's John Galt (raping)? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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