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Archive for February 21st, 2008

BooTube vs Wired

Posted by Ted Hopton on February 21, 2008

I thought you could see just about anything on YouTube, but now that Google’s deep pockets are behind it, the site has to be more careful about little things like copyright infringement and other complaints. Suing Google could be very lucrative. Wired reported the story, “Humorless Metalheads Shut Down Popular YouTuber.”

Three humorless guitar heroes who were lampooned in a series of YouTube “shredding” videos have had the clips pulled offline after citing copyright infringement.

Here’s a clip that is still on YouTube, from the Jimmy Kimmel show.

But, some websites are bolder, and Wired is one of them. They followed up their report with another one, “The Parody Guitar Videos Banned By YouTube,” complete with the embedded videos Read the rest of this entry »

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