Comments on: Victory: UMG & YouTube retreat

By: boo d

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By: Hot Air » Blog Archive » iFilm frontpages “Thanks for the Memories, Cindy!”

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 14:38:10 +0000

[...] In the past, YouTube has deleted our videos unilaterally, they have lied about the reason for deleting them and claimed that we deleted them ourselves, they pulled the Akon Vent even after UMG stood down on its copyright infringement case against us (they restored it after we protested), and YouTube has been generally hard to deal with for quite a while now. And when I say “hard to deal with,” I intend to conjure up Cold War analogies in your mind. We have produced whole shows as open letters taking YouTube on for its hostile acts. And don’t get us started on Youtube’s dhimmi ways. Really. [...]

By: Mark Jaquith

Mark Jaquith — Thu, 17 May 2007 15:55:15 +0000

Nice! The DMCA is a horrid act that is frequently abused… it’s nice to see the underdog emerge victorious. This also nicely demonstrates that the EFF isn’t a “lefty” group. They are an electronic civil rights advocate. Free use is a right. Michelle’s rights were squashed under the guise of the DMCA, and they went to her rescue. I’ll be donating to them again this year.

By: Maxx

Maxx — Tue, 15 May 2007 15:25:32 +0000

Your Awesome Michelle !! Thank you for giving these lefties a good smack !

By: James

James — Tue, 15 May 2007 14:07:55 +0000

Not really. It is incumbent on an aggrieved party to make a claim prior to filing a complaint in court. In this case, UMG knew they’d lose, so they caved. This is a legal smackdown, with a bad actor that knew they would get a beating in court.

Props to Michelle and EFF.

Pablo on May 15, 2007 at 8:27 AM

Right…you’re arguing my point. I said this is better than resorting to Diggbot tactics of shoving content in their faces over and over and over to get them to give up that way.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:00:25 +0000

Good going Michelle.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Tue, 15 May 2007 12:27:31 +0000

James,

I agree…but censorship is best dealt with in the legal arena. Doesn’t a legal smackdown send a better message than a service saying ‘OK, I give up, give baby his bottle?’

Not really. It is incumbent on an aggrieved party to make a claim prior to filing a complaint in court. In this case, UMG knew they’d lose, so they caved. This is a legal smackdown, with a bad actor that knew they would get a beating in court.

Props to Michelle and EFF.

By: Highrise

Highrise — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:41:30 +0000

Good going Michelle!

By: Egfrow

Egfrow — Tue, 15 May 2007 03:16:53 +0000

I get it. The only way you can get situations like this resolved is with laywer$.

By: sonnyspats1

sonnyspats1 — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:09:39 +0000

Yeah! Michelles vigilance and tenaciousness pays off once again. Yes I think they will “think twice” Michelle. Good job.

By: TwinkietheKid

TwinkietheKid — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:04:19 +0000

Did you make necklace from the teeth you knocked out of their mouths?

By: LegendHasIt

LegendHasIt — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:32:05 +0000

Congratulations Michelle.
Once again, I must remember to give thanks to God that you are on our side.

By: Bob's Kid

Bob's Kid — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:36:42 +0000

My guess is that they figured all the hoopla was over, what with Verizon backing down and Akon apologizing. I think they’re wrong, which is a good thing all around.

By: Independent Conservative

Independent Conservative — Mon, 14 May 2007 21:00:21 +0000

Hot Air Works With the EFF to Stop DMCA Enforcement Abuse at YouTube. Defend Fair Use!…

For some years, I was a paying member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). I still have the T-Shirts and hats, really. As a digital content provider I wanted to ensure corporate nuts were not stepping on smaller content developers or even or…

By: CyberCipher

CyberCipher — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:43:54 +0000

This is an unassisted triple play, since 1) they backed down, 2) the video is back up, and 3) you now have a well documented case proving that these people WILL abuse the law to support their own dubious political agenda. In any future contest, they will no longer possess ANY credibility (in the eyes of the courts/legal system).

By: Coronagold

Coronagold — Mon, 14 May 2007 20:24:43 +0000

I love it when the left gets caught in the morning eating a big bowl of stupid.

By: John

John — Mon, 14 May 2007 19:38:07 +0000

I’m guessing the claim that HotAir violated copyright could have unfortunate implications for their own attempts to resist lawsuits filed by large multi-media conglomerates essentially accusing them of the same thing.

It shows they’re sensitive to infringement in some cases. I wouldn’t be surprised if you guys end up as a footnote in a future brief by Time Warner.

By: locomotivebreath1901

locomotivebreath1901 — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:59:46 +0000

…”Vent with Michelle Malkin” — an irreverent daily video podcast produced by Malkin’s conservative Internet broadcast network “Hot Air.”…

You’re a big dog now, girl!

By: Franklin Hill

Franklin Hill — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:28:45 +0000

Dear Mrs. Malkin,
I am curious as to whether you are actually on a first name basis with this Jacob, or if he is just being discourteous (or ignorant of courtesy) in addressing you by your first name. I was reared to address others by their first names only when they gave me permission to do so, or when we were friends or relatives. And sometimes even then titles were used in some situations. It seems to me to show a lack of respect as well as discourtesy.

By: WisCon

WisCon — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:53:52 +0000

VICTORY!!! /johnnydrama

By: Freelancer

Freelancer — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:40:04 +0000

I have less of a problem with the EFF than others here. There is no question that they have a biased agenda, and I could wish that they more often chose to champion conservative victims; however, their function is, on balance, a noble one.

It is important to fight for individual and group rights when they are restricted. EFF is only anti-government to the extent that government intrudes improperly upon personal or corporate freedoms, and that is not a bad thing. And I believe that their decision to assist Michelle in this case, PRO BONO, indicates that their chief aim is freedom and fairness.

I disagree with EFF’s selection of cases to participate in, probably more than half of the time. I also think that defense attorneys are trying to set a criminal free more than half of the time. That doesn’t make what either is doing wrong.

Congrats on the You-Tube beatdown, Michelle.

By: mesablue

mesablue — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:35:09 +0000

This is a good thing. Yet, the crybaby whiner types at YouTube aren’t going to forget this.

One thing about libs — they never learn their lesson. They either grow up and become conservatives or they just come back with more stupid.

By: Zorro

Zorro — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:32:36 +0000

That was a pretty quick resolution. The victory is a proud moment, the day belongs to Michelle. Good triumphs over evil once again…

By: bloggless

bloggless — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:18:03 +0000

Yay Michelle! Who will star in his “movie”? A toilet?

By: TheBigOldDog

TheBigOldDog — Mon, 14 May 2007 17:05:21 +0000

The DMCA needs reform. We need our fair use rights restored. Not everyone who is abused under the current law can raise enough of a public stink to get multi-billion dollar corporations to back down.