CBS Reporter Posts YouTube Video Of Grammys... Only To Have CBS Send Takedown Notice
from the left-hand,-right-hand dept
Adam Singer has the news of how a reporter for CBS News, reporting on the Grammys, posted a YouTube clip to a story he had written... except soon after it was posted, CBS issued a DMCA takedown on the video, leading to this bizarre situation, put into image form by someone at Reddit (of course):Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: copyright, dmca, grammys, takedown
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LOL
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http://cheezburger.com/View/4466221824
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How Big Media Really Works
Because they air the show ONCE, and if you werent there on that day at that time, fuck the viewer.
This is how these big media companies think: We will give you what WE decide, WHEN we decide, HOW we decide, and we will sue into oblivion anyone who deviates from this. Forget social norms, forget sharing of culture, forget even that this airs on FREE OVER THE AIR TV - the big media corp wont ever re-air or provide the program in ANY form EVER after ONE airing. Forget all that, because if the public wants it, fuck them, they can watch it on that one specific Sunday in February and if they miss it too bad boo hoo. Big media doesnt CARE what YOU (the public, the consumer) wants. They only care about what THEY want. They are the single most short-sighted, anti-consumer industry in existence.
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The reporter was most probably aware of that and chose a non-restricted youtube video to get around that. Too bad he didn't succeed.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U43Ate3Itjs
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It's worse that this dumbass is in the CBS news department. It suggests he has no clue how to work inside his own company.
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So that brings up the question of why is an external provider much more efficient than an internal system. And why is CBS using such an inefficient system when there is a better alternative? Why is CBS wasting resources first by having their own system, and then wasting more resources in the effort to stop their content appearing on the better system?
If you owned shares of CBS's parent company, wouldn't you want to know why?
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CBS more than likely has the tape online and ready to go, already used in a news story somewhere. But instead of asking and waiting to 15 minutes it might take to get an answer, he short cut the system, only to discover people cleaning up behind him, making him (and his bosses) look like dumbasses.
If I owned shares in CBS's parent company, I would wonder why they hired freetards to work in news.
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And why are other people's assumptions "false" and yours are "more than likely"?
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Because all the anal retentive tools are copyright lawyers?
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CBS's right hand doesn't know what it's left hand is doing...
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Takedown
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A big company
It is pretty funny though.
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The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Clearly CBS has some issues that they need to address there, now the people needing education on how to use the technologies they asked for are the very people who asked for them.
They probably will need to create a whole division just for dealing with this stuff since Youtube is just one of several video websites and anyone who can post something online will need to fill forms and forms showing what they will do and where they will post so the filters don't eat their cookies.
It just gets expensive over time LoL
The guy who is responsible for authorizing those things will get some calls and become very popular now.
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Happened to me too!
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