stealing on youtube

[Tash]

Attaching their own bumpers and saying it is theirs. Should we just let these people have the fun. What have you said or done in reaction. I think its hilarious that someone would go through that much trouble for a lie.

[Kionon]

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This thread is an example of a dead horse people keep beating. It's happened to most of us. There is nothing you can do. Consider it a compliment someone is so enamored by your work they want to take credit for it and move on.

[Tash]

oh god sorry, figured

[Megamom]

Attaching their own bumpers and saying it is theirs. Should we just let these people have the fun. What have you said or done in reaction. I think its hilarious that someone would go through that much trouble for a lie.

[Tash]

I just feels like an amazing phenomonon that the internet has created, lots of anonymous
untalented people can get a tiny pump of an ego boost in little online worlds, I can't think of an example of this happening before the web because everything had to be done in person, but editing amvs can be so arbitrary, any age and person can be credited for any video. I wonder how this custom of lieing will evolve with the future and more advanced hobbies. Because even though they didn't make the videos, I am sure they feel a bit proud when they get congratulatory comments, I wonder what that will do to us over generations, feeling good about fake success.

thats all I will say good bye now

[Otohiko]

The youtube culture does amaze me sometimes. I've seen a bunch of "AMV contests" on the tube where the "prize" was a certain number of subscriptions to someone's channel. That definitely made me raise an eyebrow.

Tash's "Why?" is a perfectly legit question that noone in any of these "dead horse" threads has even so much as tried to rationally tackle, imho.

[Kionon]

Oto, Bashar and I have both addressed it. At length. I am sure others have as well. It's an increase in the demand for instant gratification. YouTube theft is but one incarnation of this increasing demand for reward without effort. It's just a very blatant one. You are so against any kind of effort for your positive strokes that you can't even be bothered to cut off the bumpers (which is what my thieves did, and then they lied to my internet face by posting "it's not yours." "uh, really, cause it says KIONON on it..." "u lie, I not a thief" etc). Pathetic.

[JaddziaDax]

The most common reaction I've seen out there is to create hideous watermarks and slap it in the corner of their video. Glaring eyesores they are, but I hate professional watermarks as well.

I sometimes start the end credits just before the video ends, makes it slightly harder for them to rip off my end credits without disrupting the end of the video. I guess this is about as underhanded as the watermark, but I think it's less distracting because it only happens at the end of the video.

MY normal reaction is to leave a comment stating something like: "Thanks for liking my video and all, but why did you remove my credits?" Truthfully, I've never actually had someone change my bumpers to their's, but they just remove them. So far every time I've done this the video is removed, without a fight even.

When it wasn't my video, posting the actual name of the video, "OMG this is _______! I love this vid!" or similar has given me the same results. I assume it's because they have been found out.

I find that my videos end up in Frankensteins more than anything. Pointing out that's what they did I usually just gets the person "crediting" me. O.o I've given up caring about those, at least there was some slight effort in the video more than just removing bumpers.

I've yet to have a video of mine stolen where they just changed the music, but this has happened to my friends, usually pointing out what they did oftentimes gets them to take the video down. Though I think it was more of a fight.
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Why do they do this? I assume they want recognition without the work.

[TritioAFB]

I remember there was a guy teaching newbies about how to steal an amv. He even mentioned all the sites like this one, and techniques

[BasharOfTheAges]

I just have account(s) set up for sending form-letters and flagging vids. Check it once a month or so. Haven't had much of a problem lately because even though i've made stuff that's won awards, none of it's been mainstream enough for people to even download.