YouTube Defends Copyright With 'Toons
Russell the Squirrel introduces new remedial schooling plan
Earlier today, Google unveiled a new punishment regime for YouTube copyright violators: users who've uploaded protected material onto the site are forced to take a copyright tutorial and pass a written test before they’re allowed access to YouTube again. Gawker’s Adrien Chen rightly pointed out that the new policies sound a whole lot like the drunk driving seminars most states require people convicted of DUIs to take.
The best part of the new policy, though, is the tutorial video Google put together, which features a "pirate squirrel" named Russell who gets in trouble for posting YouTube videos of a moose musician named “Lumpy.”
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