This latest B.S. ploy has nothing to do with protection of innocents via phishing scams. It has everything to do with eBay's overzealous "Big Brother" attitude. Ebay and Paypal have been actively tracking users, logging every single detail about what their users do for the better part of a decade. Essentially ebay wants email service providers to subsidize the cost of ebay tracking their own users via secured email.
How about the fact that the President of Clear Channel radio said yesterday that pretty much the music (radio) industry is on it's way out? How about the fact that the "Hip Hop" rap era is finally over with? How about that 90% of the music released commercially today is CRAP? Really, in ten years are there still going to be cd's sold in shops? Will optical storage in 10 years look as funny as reel to reel? The music industry is scared because their reign of terror is finally over. The movie industry won't be affected as much, even though digital distribution of films is going to finally release that stranglehold that the studios currently have. The movie studios will survive because of their ability to make the big budget films nobody else can. Also 3-D movies will become more of the norm. CD's came out in 1981, 1981!! CD's came out a year before MS. PAC-MAN. The music studios are long overdue for a technology shift.
The GDC was in many ways the direct opposite of the E3 and should always remain that way. In this day and age of instant information, are trade shows for videogames even necessary? I would say up until now the CES (previously) and the E3 was necessary, but now it's no longer important. If Sony, for example wants to announce the PS4 in five years, they won't be doing it at an "E3." Why spend all of that money when they can just call up and invite a few of the big news agencies, important bloggers, etc., to their corporate headquarters and then announce the big announcement in a controlled environment?
It's not 1983, technology is not changing every five seconds like it was back then. Sure, there are new gadgets/cell phones/gizmos, but the "wow" factor of technology is not like it was in the 80's and early 90's.
Those who worked for any PBS station in America remembers how exorbitant the licensing fees were for BBC programs such as Dr. Who and Blakes 7. The BBC made a fortune off Dr. Who in the 70's and 80's and from what I have been told, Blakes 7 was more costly than NOVA. The BBC now outsources Dr. Who to the Sci-Fi network and makes money off of that, as well as making money off of BBC America, both from ads and fees charged to the cable/satellite companies. I don't see why the BBC needs to collect fees anymore, it should be self-sufficient by now. The fees were originally created to fund programming to entice people to purchase tv sets. Besides, the line of "tv" set and computer is almost totally blurred.
It seems that in the torrent age, everyone has forgotten that tv shows used to be traded on VHS all over the world. I used to get Dr. Who episodes from my cousins in England (I had a very expensive PAL/NTSC converter-player) and I used to trade episodes with a lot of people all over the world. Now I can just download whatever tv episodes that I want. I don't understand why nobody gave a shit about tape trading, but now if I share a private torrent or a custom made dvd of a tv show with my friends, instead of sending them a tape, I am a now PIRATE!
Television has always been regarded as "disposable" entertainment. It was not till Lucille Ball started filming all her show that anyone thought that a tv show could hold any future value after once it aired.
Look at the BBC, they have had a policy of no reruns past the original broadcast. While we here in the states got to watch Dr. Who/Blakes 7 over and over again on PBS stations, it was difficult to find old episodes in the UK.
Another user suggested banning Windows, due to the immense amount of updates that clog up the net. I say also ban Quicktime, as that S.O.B. program "updates" more frequently than any other program, yet the differences are generally only in bug fixes and release number. Oh you just bought Quicktime 7.0189 PRO, too bad, you now have to pay another $29.99 to get Quicktime 8.0. Ha, Ha (nelson voice)
Yes, there can be only one. It will be extremely interesting to see exactly whom the democrats choose to lead them to victory this election. I say this because there are currently zero republican candidates able to win an election. I find it incredibly sad that it comes down to that. Choose a retard, or choose someone you don't like. The electoral system in this country needs to be changed/updated for the 21st century so that ANYONE can run for president and win, not just who the high and mighty royalty (Dems and Republicans) choose for us to be able to elect.
yeah, I doubt most of slashdot's readership is "Center Right," all you have to do is read Slashdot to see this. I'm pretty much dead center and it gets frustrating having a discussion about, say, evolution without either side going apeshit and calling each other crazy. I was actually called an idiot by a hardcore atheist simply because I did not believe in his dogma of randomness and natural selection and was open to the POSSIBILITY that the universe was created by an intelligent being.
Seriously, politics should never be discussed on Slashdot as anyone who does not cling to a hard-left viewpoint on EVERY issue is labeled a troll automatically. Seen it too many times here to think otherwise.
If you want to discuss politics, goto Fark, as at least there you can't be modded down because you don't have a left-leaning viewpoint/opinion.
Would an infrared "Barrier" around airports do the same thing? It seems it would be a lot safer to have infrared emitters stationed around the entire airport and surround areas, so the rockets/missiles strike the infrared stations instead of putting countermeasures on the planes themselves?
Is the "printer" going to print out liquid gypsum plumbing and electrical work as well? I actually had to cancel my contract on a house because the builder laid out the plumbing a foot off, which to them was no big deal. I was lucky I caught them and did my own measurements after the slab was poured, otherwise I would have had a ticking time bomb regarding the plumbing and possibly severe drainage problems.
Ball lightning has nothing to do with soil, or the earth, in any way. There have been reports of ball lightning passing through Jumbo Jet airliners like an errant ghost and just about every report has heralded ball lightning's ability to hover or simply pass through objects. What the Brazilian labs have done seems to me to have created "Jumping Jacks."
My point was that I purchased every album I have ever owned on first records, then tapes, then cds and now SACD's. I am legally entitled to make backup copies of my albums (which I did) but my backups and my albums were carried away in a 43 foot wall of water. I am not stealing anything, just restoring my backups. I think at least THREE separate purchases of each album in my collection is enough. I also know people who use service like allofmymp3.com to simply make portable versions of their music, as it's too much trouble to convert their cd/record collections to MP3/OOG/WM/whatever.
I'm all for allofmymp3 and all of it's Russian counterparts. I lost my entire cd and record collection in Katrina and it was the only was to recover my collection instead of repurchasing all of the albums again. I am old enough to have bought my entire collection on records, tapes, cd's and for as much as I can SACD/HD audio. I am all for contributing to the machine if the records companies release NEW, higher quality recordings in the future, but I'm not repurchasing my cd collection. I've already paid my taxes to the RIAA Gods several times over.
I have lived in the cities with the worst drivers and the worst traffic and I have seen it time and time again; it's the slow dumbasses that are the real cause of majority of wrecks. It's that asshole who is going 50 in the passing lane and won't move. Or the driver is just going so slow that normal traffic rams into him, or is slowed town greatly.
The people with really fast cars generally drive very well. After all, they don't want to smash up their fancy car.
It's the assholes who don't care that they clogging up the passing lane who really are the cause of most accidents and traffic slowdown.
Oh, I have noticed that traffic patterns and behaviors do vary by location. For instance in New Orleans (pre-katrina) the drivers were extremely agressive and would not let you in no matter what and pretty much there could be aliens landing on the side of the road and nobody would care or slow down. In L.A. the 405 would be backed up forever only to find out that it was slowed down because of ONE car broke down in the emergency lane, with no accident; everyone was slowing down in response to this one car on the side of the road. In San Antonio, TX, everyone is on crack and drives a Ford F450 Dually 100mph, everywhere. Not usually a problem, but the entire city of San Antonio is being redone road wise and it creates choke points almost instantly that can't be foreseen.
I own all three systems and generally don't play favourites, but I have had the most fun on the 360, followed very closely by the Wii and I have had NO fun with any of the PS3 games. The PS3's "showcase" game: Resistance: Fall of Man is a joke, a total and utter joke. My friends came over and watched me play the game from the start without sound (we had yet to hook up my Christmas present (new audio system) and were laughing our asses off at how stupid EVERYTHING in the game is. The A.I. is sooooooooo stupid. It sticks it's head out, shoots, takes cover: rinse, repeat. I mean, come on, Half Life, TEN YEARS ago has better A.I. Everything in the game looks cartoony and crappy, especially explosions. I can't believe how anyone is giving RFOM good reviews. Honestly, if you put this game in the PS2 kiosk at a mall, nobody would look twice.
I was expecting at least Half Life 2 level graphics, not PS2.5 graphics. Yes, I know super, uber games are coming out this time NEXT year, but that's an awful long wait to shell out $600 bucks (minimum) for what Sony touts as the "true" next-gen. Sony has already lost this war, and everyone knows it. Just look at all of the developers jumping ship, producing 360 versions of supposed PS3 only games. Also, don't forget that the Wii development kit is only $3,000, so you'll see a lot of really fun, inventive, games on the Wii.
Sony is in a no-win situation. The public perception is that the 360 is just as powerful, if not more powerful than the PS3 and it costs upward $300. Coupled with the fact that Sony is losing at least $300 on each PS3, it's hard to see how Sony can pull this one out, let alone attain the number one spot again.
Robots are just machines. They have no soul and even if you don't believe in souls, they have no way of doing ANYTHING except what they are programmed to do. Personally, I find artificial intelligence scary. The movie 2001 once again proves how far ahead of it's time it was. HAL 9000 was told to do something that conflicted it's programming, something simple that we all do, lie. HAL went batshit and killed the crew.
What's to say that can't happen? As for "robot rights" that's an absurdity. Robots are property, nothing more. The ONLY way robot rights could, or should, ever get brought up, is if the human race builds something along the lines of a "replicant" with real emotions, but then it would not be a "robot", but something eerily close to that which breathes.
Simply, until robots can actually have real emotional responses AND are self aware, then they deserve no rights.
The reason why ebay express was created was that ebay faced a very distinct possibility that they were going to lose the buy it now feature from their auction site, as the company that won the patent infringement lawsuit sought not only damages, but a permanent injunction against ebay. So ebay was trying to steer the "buy it now" portion to ebay express AND attempt to legitimize the tainted image of high profile "buy it now" auctions. Fortunately for ebay, the Supreme court ruled in favor of ebay, and it happened to be a landmark blow to "patent trolls" everywhere.
I am curious though, how long ebay can continue to raise it's fees and continue to offer LESS features and service and still maintain it's business model. Personally, I think the worst thing ebay ever did was to go public. It never needed to go public, it was a cash cow and was one of the few initial Internet businesses that actually made a LOT of money by doing essentially nothing, but hosting servers. Now ebay's future is dictated by the stockholders.
Well, not really ten, but here goes:
THE CHINESE WHO ARE SELLING ILLEGAL/BOOTLEG ITEMS SELL FOR FREE. I understand eBay wanted to jump into the burgeoning Chinese market, but they did it at the expense of their sellers. Not only do Chinese sellers get to sell for free, 99.9% of the Chinese sellers sell bootleg/counterfeit items and list a SHIT LOAD of them on ebay. Ebay totally screwed their bread and butter, the paying sellers, both ways.
Not only do sellers have their auction listings artificially obscured by fake Chinese crap, the legit sellers can't compete in prices. Why buy a "Scrubs" one season dvd set when you can buy all of the seasons for the same price? Also since the Chinese now make high quality bootlegs of everything, ebay is very hesistant to pull an auction unless the VERO owner complains directly. If somehow the Chinese seller gets suspended, bam, he's back up instantly using one of his other countless HIGH FEEDBACK account.
Ebay will NEVER penetrate China. Different culture, different everything. If I were in charge of Ebay right now I would shut off China entirely, except for buyers and USA and other worldwide sellers should sue ebay for unfair competition.
Perhaps if today's reporters stopped making up half of their stories and/or stopped giving away national security secrets, perhaps this would not be happening.
I am not a supporter of the Bush administration, but I have noticed an extreme bias to publish any story that makes the president look bad, even if it could possibly help our enemies.
Although the company's name is cool, it's a shame George Lucas is going to own this jetpack company once he finds out the owner is using one of his precious Star Wars Trademarks.
I think most Star Wars Fan films do try and not suck, but mostly all of them end up becoming a lightsaber/cgi fest with no story or plot. Ironically, much the same could be said about the "new" trilogy. The only good fanfilm I have seen that is coming out is http://www.tydirium.tv/ they actually built a huge Star Destroyer model and had real sets.
I'm sorry, I thought that point of uploading videos to youtube was to gain maximum exposure. You do not give up your copyright protection at all. It's like sending a cd to every radio station in the country and then they actually play it on the air. You can't then turn around and say "Hey, I'm angry at you that you played my cd on the radio!!!"
In the end, if you want anonymity, just give your uploded video a stupid filename like ##%35yo0safa, so nobody will be able to find it unless they are looking for it.
You can always send youtube.com a cease and decist via a lawyer stating you own the copyright and to stop distribution immediately.
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This latest B.S. ploy has nothing to do with protection of innocents via phishing scams. It has everything to do with eBay's overzealous "Big Brother" attitude. Ebay and Paypal have been actively tracking users, logging every single detail about what their users do for the better part of a decade. Essentially ebay wants email service providers to subsidize the cost of ebay tracking their own users via secured email.
How about the fact that the President of Clear Channel radio said yesterday that pretty much the music (radio) industry is on it's way out? How about the fact that the "Hip Hop" rap era is finally over with? How about that 90% of the music released commercially today is CRAP? Really, in ten years are there still going to be cd's sold in shops? Will optical storage in 10 years look as funny as reel to reel? The music industry is scared because their reign of terror is finally over. The movie industry won't be affected as much, even though digital distribution of films is going to finally release that stranglehold that the studios currently have. The movie studios will survive because of their ability to make the big budget films nobody else can. Also 3-D movies will become more of the norm. CD's came out in 1981, 1981!! CD's came out a year before MS. PAC-MAN. The music studios are long overdue for a technology shift.
The GDC was in many ways the direct opposite of the E3 and should always remain that way. In this day and age of instant information, are trade shows for videogames even necessary? I would say up until now the CES (previously) and the E3 was necessary, but now it's no longer important. If Sony, for example wants to announce the PS4 in five years, they won't be doing it at an "E3." Why spend all of that money when they can just call up and invite a few of the big news agencies, important bloggers, etc., to their corporate headquarters and then announce the big announcement in a controlled environment? It's not 1983, technology is not changing every five seconds like it was back then. Sure, there are new gadgets/cell phones/gizmos, but the "wow" factor of technology is not like it was in the 80's and early 90's.
Those who worked for any PBS station in America remembers how exorbitant the licensing fees were for BBC programs such as Dr. Who and Blakes 7. The BBC made a fortune off Dr. Who in the 70's and 80's and from what I have been told, Blakes 7 was more costly than NOVA. The BBC now outsources Dr. Who to the Sci-Fi network and makes money off of that, as well as making money off of BBC America, both from ads and fees charged to the cable/satellite companies. I don't see why the BBC needs to collect fees anymore, it should be self-sufficient by now. The fees were originally created to fund programming to entice people to purchase tv sets. Besides, the line of "tv" set and computer is almost totally blurred.
It seems that in the torrent age, everyone has forgotten that tv shows used to be traded on VHS all over the world. I used to get Dr. Who episodes from my cousins in England (I had a very expensive PAL/NTSC converter-player) and I used to trade episodes with a lot of people all over the world. Now I can just download whatever tv episodes that I want. I don't understand why nobody gave a shit about tape trading, but now if I share a private torrent or a custom made dvd of a tv show with my friends, instead of sending them a tape, I am a now PIRATE! Television has always been regarded as "disposable" entertainment. It was not till Lucille Ball started filming all her show that anyone thought that a tv show could hold any future value after once it aired. Look at the BBC, they have had a policy of no reruns past the original broadcast. While we here in the states got to watch Dr. Who/Blakes 7 over and over again on PBS stations, it was difficult to find old episodes in the UK.
Another user suggested banning Windows, due to the immense amount of updates that clog up the net. I say also ban Quicktime, as that S.O.B. program "updates" more frequently than any other program, yet the differences are generally only in bug fixes and release number. Oh you just bought Quicktime 7.0189 PRO, too bad, you now have to pay another $29.99 to get Quicktime 8.0. Ha, Ha (nelson voice)
Yes, there can be only one. It will be extremely interesting to see exactly whom the democrats choose to lead them to victory this election. I say this because there are currently zero republican candidates able to win an election. I find it incredibly sad that it comes down to that. Choose a retard, or choose someone you don't like. The electoral system in this country needs to be changed/updated for the 21st century so that ANYONE can run for president and win, not just who the high and mighty royalty (Dems and Republicans) choose for us to be able to elect.
yeah, I doubt most of slashdot's readership is "Center Right," all you have to do is read Slashdot to see this. I'm pretty much dead center and it gets frustrating having a discussion about, say, evolution without either side going apeshit and calling each other crazy. I was actually called an idiot by a hardcore atheist simply because I did not believe in his dogma of randomness and natural selection and was open to the POSSIBILITY that the universe was created by an intelligent being.
Seriously, politics should never be discussed on Slashdot as anyone who does not cling to a hard-left viewpoint on EVERY issue is labeled a troll automatically. Seen it too many times here to think otherwise. If you want to discuss politics, goto Fark, as at least there you can't be modded down because you don't have a left-leaning viewpoint/opinion.
This new tattoo technology is really the mark of the beast (literally) lol
Would an infrared "Barrier" around airports do the same thing? It seems it would be a lot safer to have infrared emitters stationed around the entire airport and surround areas, so the rockets/missiles strike the infrared stations instead of putting countermeasures on the planes themselves?
Is the "printer" going to print out liquid gypsum plumbing and electrical work as well? I actually had to cancel my contract on a house because the builder laid out the plumbing a foot off, which to them was no big deal. I was lucky I caught them and did my own measurements after the slab was poured, otherwise I would have had a ticking time bomb regarding the plumbing and possibly severe drainage problems.
Ball lightning has nothing to do with soil, or the earth, in any way. There have been reports of ball lightning passing through Jumbo Jet airliners like an errant ghost and just about every report has heralded ball lightning's ability to hover or simply pass through objects. What the Brazilian labs have done seems to me to have created "Jumping Jacks."
My point was that I purchased every album I have ever owned on first records, then tapes, then cds and now SACD's. I am legally entitled to make backup copies of my albums (which I did) but my backups and my albums were carried away in a 43 foot wall of water. I am not stealing anything, just restoring my backups. I think at least THREE separate purchases of each album in my collection is enough. I also know people who use service like allofmymp3.com to simply make portable versions of their music, as it's too much trouble to convert their cd/record collections to MP3/OOG/WM/whatever.
I'm all for allofmymp3 and all of it's Russian counterparts. I lost my entire cd and record collection in Katrina and it was the only was to recover my collection instead of repurchasing all of the albums again.
I am old enough to have bought my entire collection on records, tapes, cd's and for as much as I can SACD/HD audio. I am all for contributing to the machine if the records companies release NEW, higher quality recordings in the future, but I'm not repurchasing my cd collection. I've already paid my taxes to the RIAA Gods several times over.
I have lived in the cities with the worst drivers and the worst traffic and I have seen it time and time again; it's the slow dumbasses that are the real cause of majority of wrecks. It's that asshole who is going 50 in the passing lane and won't move. Or the driver is just going so slow that normal traffic rams into him, or is slowed town greatly.
The people with really fast cars generally drive very well. After all, they don't want to smash up their fancy car.
It's the assholes who don't care that they clogging up the passing lane who really are the cause of most accidents and traffic slowdown.
Oh, I have noticed that traffic patterns and behaviors do vary by location. For instance in New Orleans (pre-katrina) the drivers were extremely agressive and would not let you in no matter what and pretty much there could be aliens landing on the side of the road and nobody would care or slow down. In L.A. the 405 would be backed up forever only to find out that it was slowed down because of ONE car broke down in the emergency lane, with no accident; everyone was slowing down in response to this one car on the side of the road. In San Antonio, TX, everyone is on crack and drives a Ford F450 Dually 100mph, everywhere. Not usually a problem, but the entire city of San Antonio is being redone road wise and it creates choke points almost instantly that can't be foreseen.
I own all three systems and generally don't play favourites, but I have had the most fun on the 360, followed very closely by the Wii and I have had NO fun with any of the PS3 games. The PS3's "showcase" game: Resistance: Fall of Man is a joke, a total and utter joke. My friends came over and watched me play the game from the start without sound (we had yet to hook up my Christmas present (new audio system) and were laughing our asses off at how stupid EVERYTHING in the game is. The A.I. is sooooooooo stupid. It sticks it's head out, shoots, takes cover: rinse, repeat. I mean, come on, Half Life, TEN YEARS ago has better A.I. Everything in the game looks cartoony and crappy, especially explosions. I can't believe how anyone is giving RFOM good reviews. Honestly, if you put this game in the PS2 kiosk at a mall, nobody would look twice. I was expecting at least Half Life 2 level graphics, not PS2.5 graphics. Yes, I know super, uber games are coming out this time NEXT year, but that's an awful long wait to shell out $600 bucks (minimum) for what Sony touts as the "true" next-gen. Sony has already lost this war, and everyone knows it. Just look at all of the developers jumping ship, producing 360 versions of supposed PS3 only games. Also, don't forget that the Wii development kit is only $3,000, so you'll see a lot of really fun, inventive, games on the Wii. Sony is in a no-win situation. The public perception is that the 360 is just as powerful, if not more powerful than the PS3 and it costs upward $300. Coupled with the fact that Sony is losing at least $300 on each PS3, it's hard to see how Sony can pull this one out, let alone attain the number one spot again.
Robots are just machines. They have no soul and even if you don't believe in souls, they have no way of doing ANYTHING except what they are programmed to do. Personally, I find artificial intelligence scary. The movie 2001 once again proves how far ahead of it's time it was. HAL 9000 was told to do something that conflicted it's programming, something simple that we all do, lie. HAL went batshit and killed the crew. What's to say that can't happen? As for "robot rights" that's an absurdity. Robots are property, nothing more. The ONLY way robot rights could, or should, ever get brought up, is if the human race builds something along the lines of a "replicant" with real emotions, but then it would not be a "robot", but something eerily close to that which breathes. Simply, until robots can actually have real emotional responses AND are self aware, then they deserve no rights.
The reason why ebay express was created was that ebay faced a very distinct possibility that they were going to lose the buy it now feature from their auction site, as the company that won the patent infringement lawsuit sought not only damages, but a permanent injunction against ebay. So ebay was trying to steer the "buy it now" portion to ebay express AND attempt to legitimize the tainted image of high profile "buy it now" auctions. Fortunately for ebay, the Supreme court ruled in favor of ebay, and it happened to be a landmark blow to "patent trolls" everywhere.
I am curious though, how long ebay can continue to raise it's fees and continue to offer LESS features and service and still maintain it's business model. Personally, I think the worst thing ebay ever did was to go public. It never needed to go public, it was a cash cow and was one of the few initial Internet businesses that actually made a LOT of money by doing essentially nothing, but hosting servers. Now ebay's future is dictated by the stockholders.
Well, not really ten, but here goes: THE CHINESE WHO ARE SELLING ILLEGAL/BOOTLEG ITEMS SELL FOR FREE. I understand eBay wanted to jump into the burgeoning Chinese market, but they did it at the expense of their sellers. Not only do Chinese sellers get to sell for free, 99.9% of the Chinese sellers sell bootleg/counterfeit items and list a SHIT LOAD of them on ebay. Ebay totally screwed their bread and butter, the paying sellers, both ways. Not only do sellers have their auction listings artificially obscured by fake Chinese crap, the legit sellers can't compete in prices. Why buy a "Scrubs" one season dvd set when you can buy all of the seasons for the same price? Also since the Chinese now make high quality bootlegs of everything, ebay is very hesistant to pull an auction unless the VERO owner complains directly. If somehow the Chinese seller gets suspended, bam, he's back up instantly using one of his other countless HIGH FEEDBACK account. Ebay will NEVER penetrate China. Different culture, different everything. If I were in charge of Ebay right now I would shut off China entirely, except for buyers and USA and other worldwide sellers should sue ebay for unfair competition.
Perhaps if today's reporters stopped making up half of their stories and/or stopped giving away national security secrets, perhaps this would not be happening. I am not a supporter of the Bush administration, but I have noticed an extreme bias to publish any story that makes the president look bad, even if it could possibly help our enemies.
Although the company's name is cool, it's a shame George Lucas is going to own this jetpack company once he finds out the owner is using one of his precious Star Wars Trademarks.
troops invented the genre pretty much and is still funny today.
I think most Star Wars Fan films do try and not suck, but mostly all of them end up becoming a lightsaber/cgi fest with no story or plot. Ironically, much the same could be said about the "new" trilogy. The only good fanfilm I have seen that is coming out is http://www.tydirium.tv/ they actually built a huge Star Destroyer model and had real sets.
I'm sorry, I thought that point of uploading videos to youtube was to gain maximum exposure. You do not give up your copyright protection at all. It's like sending a cd to every radio station in the country and then they actually play it on the air. You can't then turn around and say "Hey, I'm angry at you that you played my cd on the radio!!!"
In the end, if you want anonymity, just give your uploded video a stupid filename like ##%35yo0safa, so nobody will be able to find it unless they are looking for it.
You can always send youtube.com a cease and decist via a lawyer stating you own the copyright and to stop distribution immediately.