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

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 6, 2012 @04:37AM from the we-own-it-now dept.

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 by TheGratefulNet · 2012-08-06 04:50 · Score: 5, Funny

"smithers, fetch my change purse."
"all I have with me today is a $100k bill. can you make change?"

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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Re:awesome publicity for public awareness by Anonymous Coward · 2012-08-06 05:40 · Score: 5, Funny

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.
Re:awesome publicity for public awareness by durrr · 2012-08-06 07:03 · Score: 5, Funny

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