Stupid Viacom

[damunch]

So I go to watch one of my favourite Avatar AMV's on youtube, and it's been taken down. Curiously I check all my other AMV links, and discover that youtube has taken down all my bookmarked Avatar videos thanks to a "copyright claim by Viacom" and gutted almost their entire collection. Luckily the putfile one survived.

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[floydiandroid]

Yeah, I find it very weird myself.

I'm working for MTV right now, Viacom owned, and many ideas that they come up with, and some talent, is found on youtube a lot. ::shrugs:: I guess it's okay to find people on there to make famous for 15 minutes, but not show Viacom movies.

[damunch]

It doesn't make much sense to me. The fans aren't making any money off of AMV's, heck it really just helps feed the popularity. Viacom is just silly.

[confidentsoba]

I was noticing them doing that the other night when I was trying to watch bits of comedy shows. Mostly it just left me wondering what exactly fell under the claim, since some things still managaed to stay up.

[damunch]

All the other fandoms I have links to seem to have survived, though they might not be linked to viacom. Avatar was the only one I noticed.