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Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by golergka »

jhasse wrote: post #21
nailer wrote: post #12

Wonder if the attention put on YouTube here will inspire Google to fix the financial and political 'infringement' takedowns. Eg, during the takedown process, have something like: > [ ] I understand that satire and political commentary does not in itself consititute copyright infringement, and that I am not filing this notice on the basis of the video satirizing or making commentary on my copywritten content. > [ ] I…

How about an alternative to YouTube? It's such a pity that online videos have become so centralized ...

You can always host videos on your own website and pay for your own traffic and server costs.

Unlike Facebook, Youtube isn't a monopolic walled garden with such powerful network effects, so for most purposes it's not an awful alternative. Therefore, unlike Facebook, I don't think that Youtube ia under any moral obligation to be a fair playing field.

Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by neolefty »

milankragujevic wrote: post #25
corobo wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd not heard of it until now. Streisand is in full effect. I've also grabbed a copy of the mod in case they decide to abuse copyright to take that down too, pretty sure I can upload it to sites faster than they can DMCA them. The real lesson here is don't make exploding phones.

I have to bitch about Samsung once more, because their batteries are absolute shit and puff up even if charged with their original charger in the original phone, and so innocently the batteries' warranty is 6 month but they puff up and decrease in capacity dramatically after 7-8 months of use.

Not all are bad -- mine has never given me trouble and still has decent battery life fifteen months later.

Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by neolefty »

turblety wrote: post #9
msh wrote: post #2

Is there a major mobile phone producer with lower morals than Samsung?

Maybe not a mobile phone producer, but certainly YouTube has morals at least the same as, if not lower than Samsung. We really need to fight these censorship issues before it's too late.

It's an automated system designed to comply with the DMCA. Give it a few days for manual intervention to shake things out, then judge.

Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by netsharc »

adventurer wrote: post #19
warrenmiller wrote: post #6

methinks this will only lead to the barbra streisand effect.

It is definitely happening. I checked Facebook yesterday and it was trending over 1M metric (views/shares?) at that time. Everyone is writing about it.

I wonder if Samsung took a calculated risk.

Risk of brand damage if the mod was not taken down, vs. Risk of brand damage if they took down the mod and the blogtwitfacesphere laughs about it...

And as I write this I notice I'm sitting in front of a Samsung LCD monitor, shit I hope it doesn't explode!

Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by Mithaldu »

turblety wrote: post #4

By uploading a parody video of a Samsung Galaxy exploding, I don't understand how there is a law being broken? Can someone explain how this is a copyright issue?

I wouldn't be surprised if the texture of the model in the mod is a photo published by samsung in some way, meaning they would have a copyright on the texture, and publishing a video made with the mod made with the texture would indeed be a legit copyright violation.

Keep in mind that in general all gameplay videos are copyright violations because they display copies of textures belonging to video game studios, just usually the studios don't do anything about it since it's actually free advertisement.

Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by jedberg »

mountaineer22 wrote: post #68
Buge wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube gets 45% of ad revenue, whether it's content ID or not. And content ID was forced on youtube when they were sued for $1 billion by Viacom.

So, after Google was found guilty, the judge ordered contentID to be created and implemented?

No they created ContentID so they could say "look we're doing the best we can". If they got rid of it all the large copyright holders could sue again.

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Post by stonemetal »

nailer wrote: post #12

Wonder if the attention put on YouTube here will inspire Google to fix the financial and political 'infringement' takedowns. Eg, during the takedown process, have something like: > [ ] I understand that satire and political commentary does not in itself consititute copyright infringement, and that I am not filing this notice on the basis of the video satirizing or making commentary on my copywritten content. > [ ] I…

Fair use is an affirmative defense, not a get out of trouble free card. The process is right and correct for the rules as written. The rules may be bullshit but that is a different problem, and one that isn't going to be solved by feel good measures.

Re: Samsung 'blocks' exploding Note 7 parody videos

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Post by cmdrfred »

burger_moon wrote: post #47
cmdrfred wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your getting downvoted beacuse morals only apply to people in the same social caste as you. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides

Foxconn and their awful employment treatment are brought to you by the profits of more than just Apple however. Perhaps that's why people have a knee jerk reaction to singling out a tech company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers

That's relative morality, not morality.
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