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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. WTF is this article about? by luckymutt · · Score: 0, Troll

    I went to this (as its the only one I'm familiar with) and not on is that up and working, but every Hitler Downfall parody linked to on the right was up and working.
    WTF? was the OP the only one that had his pulled?

  2. Travesty, not parody by metacell · · Score: 0, Troll

    [nitpick]
    A parody of X is when you make an exaggerated or humorous version of X in order to criticise or ridicule it. So a parody of The Downfall must try to criticise or ridicule the movie or the scene itself. If it doesn't (if it ridicules something else, or is just funny in itself), it's called a travesty.
    [/nitpick]