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Sony BMG takes Beyonce's official YouTube channel down for "copyright infringement"
In an act of corporate insanity that reminds me of military behavior as described in Catch 22, Sony BMG removed the videos from Beyonce's official YouTube channel for "copyright infringement." It is her channel, and she is their artist. This is awesome! I mean, talk about caring for your musicians! Way to go, BMG!
This is just one example of the heights of madness that copyright "protection" has ascended to. And now that the super-secret ACTA negotiations appear to be well underway, we are drawing near to a day when ISPs will be held accountable whenever one of their users downloads infringing content.
Please, dear readers, convince me that I'm scare-mongering here. Tell me that ACTA will never happen, and that this is just a slight glitch on Sony's part and not an actual symptom.
As they ask over at motherboard.tv, how long will it be before Sony starts suing ladies who put a ring on it, or before Beyonce sues herself?
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Subscribe to commentsArnieMar 30th 2010 11:11AM
ACTA will happen. Govts dont care and think about the far reaching implications of their laws & that is true for all types of governments.
ReeceMar 31st 2010 8:05AM
Correction: All governments run by humans.
Man, everything is going insane. I though I was happy when iiNet won against AFACT, but that was just a ripple in the pond compared to the Tsunami that is ACTA.
To quote Bender, from Futurama: "We're boned."
216Mar 30th 2010 11:23AM
while this is an interesting story and all, I just have to ask:
What does this have to do with downloading?
abestic9Apr 2nd 2010 6:06AM
I have to agree, this belongs on TorrentFreak or similar copyright/music related websites. Not a download site.
Interesting find though. Although it doesn't surprise me in the least considering Sony is behind it. They're pretty good at kicking their own asses.
CaptHatchMar 30th 2010 12:07PM
The EU has pretty much said they will kill ACTA without significant revisions to the intellectual property provisions. It's too bad we have to depend on the EU to uphold our civil liberties.
SciamachyMar 30th 2010 7:41PM
However, the member states are all passing laws which effectively do what the ACTA wanted anyway - see the Digital Economy Bill in the UK, which is being rushed through without debate.
theharmonyguyMar 30th 2010 12:12PM
It's easy to make it appear a blocked video was from a given YouTube channel when it actually wasn't. For example, try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/beyonce?blend=1&ob=4#p/f/2/87-MUkH3fgU
I'm guessing this was just a trick, since the beyonceVEVO channel still has the official video up.
ErynMar 30th 2010 2:42PM
I'm not sure what's up, because it's obviously been corrected. I can see all those videos just fine.
John DMar 30th 2010 4:08PM
I saw this behavior with The Prodigy's official channel. They put links in their video descriptions that said 'If you're in the US and can't see the video, come to our official site' where they had unrestricted videos.
EvenioMar 30th 2010 6:57PM
I swear these companies will not stop until it's a felony to bear witness to their content, and equally illegal to fail to pay them for the privilege of not seeing/hearing/reading it.
Brian!Mar 31st 2010 1:05PM
An excerpt from a Sony letter:
"Dear Beyonce, we own you biach.
Regards,
Your Pimp (Sony)"