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We've been ripped of again
2010-09-08 10:14:12
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pg3cHM0yd3Q
The funny thing is, this person REMADE our video using the same exact footage, and the same exact song, rewording the same exact opening lines that I PERSONALLY wrote, and yet claims they have never seen our video before?
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We rocked da tube!!!
2006-08-11 03:19:49
So even though Yomiuri TV/SUNRISE is swiftly killing all the reposts of our videos over at YouTube that I have been tracking, nothing was getting done about the one YouTube user that took one of our older, un-watermarked videos, "The Other Side of Time", who had simply stuck in his own retarded bumper and was claiming the video as his own. Friends and do-gooders alike repeatedly reprimanded him for stealing the video ( as well as all the other vids that were identified as stolen ), and he simply just deleted their messages and posts and blocked them one by one. Finding an email contact for him through MySpace, I even contacted the fool and basicaly warned him to take it down, saying I didn't even care if he thought he was above apologizing and admiting to what he did- JUST TAKE IT DOWN. Of course, he ignored the email and left the video on his profile, smiting other AMV editors and viewers alike as he went, by deleteing their comments identifying the REAL editors of each of the AMVs he had stolen.
I had sent an email to YouTube, which had gone unanswered. So I resent it, with "SECOND NOTICE" in bold caps in the subject header. I finally got a reply from someone identifying themselves as YouTube's SUPPOSED Copyright Agent and Attorney. She basically said oh well too bad so sad, saying that since I didn't own Inu Yasha or Mary Fahl's song, I couldn't claim creative responsibility for the AMV as a whole. That was a couple days ago and I was initially mad, but decided to let it go. However, I got angrier and angrier that despite the fact this user was facing an onslaught of people saying, "You didn't make these. Take them down- you're making yourself look bad" he wouldn't comply. He simply deleted the messages, ignored my polite and rational email, and continued to live his little fantasy that he made these AMVs.
So I wrote BACK to YouTube, saying that video editing is an artform in itself, and is therefore a creative work and should fall under the same basic protections. Sure I can't claim property rights to Inu Yasha or the song, but Rumiko Takahashi nor Odyssey Records can legally claim rights to my transitions, or my pacing, or my hand-created mattes or even my damn photo that was used at the end of the video. Rumiko Takahashi could say, "That's my damn character. Take the video down" and Mary Fahl can say "That's my damn song. Take the video down." Therefore, I am saying, that's MY photo and MY editing. That's MY opening title card. Take the video down.
Then I went on to say that I was so disappointed in YouTube about how they openly encourage and embrace intellectual and creative theft. For shame, YouTube.
And then, as the last line in the email, I said, "Oh well, if you don't remove it, I'm sure Yomiuri Telecasting will be contacting you about it soon, anyway =)"
Today I got an email back from YouTube, saying, "We're sorry. The video has been removed." And lo- it has been removed, citing "copyright infringement".
And don't you forget it!!
Oh, and Exiled Prime, dear wannabe editor and unimaginative, AMV-thief allstar: as you so eloquently and ironically and hypocritically wrote in your MySpace profile......."STEAL MY AMVS AND YOU WILL DIE!!!!!!!!!11111111111111" -
JaddziaDax
2006-07-28 06:16:46
You got one too!!?? Now I don't feel so special =(
Seriously tho- that's the only time I feel that Quick Comments shouldn't be anonymous- it's because it let's people be complete cowards and enjoy the security of being an anonymous flamer. Oh well- I guess whatever makes them feel good about themselves without having to resort to serial killing to work out their deep, recessed, repressed, disturbed emotions and hang-ups about their own short-comings. If flaming my group's AMVs helps keep just one poor little old lady from being beaten for her handbag, then I feel much better that my AMVs are not only entertaining, but positively changing the world by reducing crime. LOL.
Though I suppose, if other people are getting spammed by that exact same comment..well that could potentionally be considered abuse of the system- and could possibly result in said person's account being closed?
Or perhaps this person is just making of sweep of the AMVs THAT SHOULD JUST NOT BE ALLOWED ON THE TOP 10% Garg SNARR!!!
*reads more of your journal*
Some silly little person is threatening to beat you up??!! I'll help ya twist the little nerd's head off. ^_^x
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BEST QUICK COMMENT EVAH:
2006-07-28 04:31:09
shiot nigga this fukin sucks ass like a fukin ass sucka yo... u see dis wite here, yeah bitch this is where it be homes, fukion like i was all trippin and shit, couldnt even fukin see straight, i mean wtf am i on drugs!? hellz no, this shiot was just fukin lame homes, just oh so fuk, what ru thinkin n shit... man,,, i need to fukin get stoned before this shit becums anything worth watching, fuk nigga u have some ways to go you know.. FUCK@#@! FUCKING SHIT
Awww...poor jealous peeps. I'm glad it makes them feel better by writing incoherent BS like this for video quick comments =) Shine on, you crazy diamond, you! =) -
2005-12-21 06:39:28
Whoa- the opinions/reviews just came out of the woodwork all of a sudden. 5 in 4 days. That's a record for us :P Hell, that's probably a record for many of the less fortunate that have to pray for at least 1 op every month or so.
But seriously, thanks to everyone. Still trying to catch up to replying individually to each one.
Earlier yesterday someone uploaded an Inu Yasha video to a particular song- the same damn song we're using in one of the videos we've been working on since September! D'oh! Had planned on having it finished and uploaded in January. Coincidences do happen, but sometimes it's just, 'aw, fugh'. You think you have a unique idea, and then all of a sudden, someone else throws it out there.
But then again, putting IY in an AMV long ago lost it's uniqueness. The music industry is just about running out of songs it *hasn't* been done to. So I probably shouldn't be too surprised at all. Either way, not going to download the other person's version to view until after we've finished and uploaded ours. I don't want to feel influenced, or feel like we might have to change some things in our version just because of what is in someone else's. Damn, that'll teach us for taking months to years just to finish one vid. At this point, it's about 75% done.
Actually, was hoping one of the "Utena" vids would get finished and kick off our 2006 run. But now that we've finally nailed a song for "Mermaid Saga", we're charging full-steam ahead on that one instead, and it may just make it out as our first video of 2006. 2 Kenshin vids on the back-burner, with a meager 10% of the footage placed on the timeline, and about 60% of the writing done. Bought a new external hard drive, so moved those 2 and a few other stagnant projects over to clear up space on the home drive. Threw out 1 of the 2 "Now and then, Here and there" videos, because of Evanescence no longer allowed to be uploaded to the site. We'll finish it later, on our time, just for ourselves.
Speaking of "Evanescence", our poor "Hameln" video. I love that series too death- and now we're just wishing we could find another good song so we can make an AMV that we can actually share with people. Ah well.
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