YouTube Nabs Chilling Effects Prof.: Coincidence or Deep Chill?
In the rush to nab video pirates, YouTube purged user-content that had nothing to do with Viacom, except sharing some key words. Harvard’s Jim Moore complained this weekend that Viacom removed a video of him having dinner with friends (Laszlo Kovacks, he’s not). He ate at Redbone’s in Somerville, MA, and most likely Leon Redbone was the search term that nabbed his video. He got off with a warning:
Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos uploaded to that account.
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