NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown

derekmead writes "NASA's livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars was practically as flawless as the landing itself. But NASA couldn't prepare for everything. An hour or so after Curiosity's 1.31 a.m. EST landing in Gale Crater,the space agency's main YouTube channel had posted a 13-minute excerpt of the stream. Ten minutes later, the video was gone, replaced with the message: 'This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.' That is to say, a NASA-made video posted on NASA's official YouTube channel, documenting the landing of a $2.5 billion Mars rover mission paid for with public taxpayer money, was blocked by YouTube because of a copyright claim by a private news service."

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Re:There is a $500 fine for this

[TheGratefulNet]

"smithers, fetch my change purse."

"all I have with me today is a $100k bill. can you make change?"

Future headline

[slashmydots]

I think Scripps Local News broadcast building is about to have a satellite or rocket land on it. Don't fuck with NASA lol.

Scripps Contact Info:

[Daryen]

For the curious, Scripps Contact Info from their website:

Corporate Headquarters:
312 Walnut Street
2800 Scripps Center
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Phone: 513-977-3000
Fax: 513-977-3024

E-mail Contacts:
Feedback: corpcomm@scripps.com
Corporate Communications: corpcomm@scripps.com
Human Resources: askHR@scripps.com

I'm sure they would love to hear what you have to say!

Re:awesome publicity for public awareness

[Anonymous Coward]

And, if you get kicked in the nuts three times or more, even if every time you asked not to be kicked again, Google castrates you. Yep, totally fair.

Can we also make it the second and third things?

[publiclurker]

in case we miss some the first go around?

Automate it!

[careysb]

Create software to automatically kill the lawyers.

Re:Automate it!

[Nyder]

Create software to automatically kill the lawyers.

Probably the motivation for making skynet.

Re:awesome publicity for public awareness

[durrr]

What do I have to do to get automated takedown acess? There's a few million videos I don't like.

Thank you, Copyright

[Trogre]

No wait, "thank" isn't quite the word I was looking for...

Re:It's NOT Henry the VI, Act IV, Scene II today

[Trogre]

Get thee to a nunnery.