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  • On the post: Google Taking Down Private Videos For Copyright Infringement?

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2008 @ 11:41am

    I probably wasn't an isolated case. How many hundreds or thousands of those emails are they sending out per day? How many of Google's users are clueless enough to panic and immediately delete non-infringing content? There are several other videos in the similar vein, in one case something I did for a non-profit and actually posted to the the orgs web site. None of those were flagged. The duplicate copy of the flagged video was not flagged. I have no idea how their software works, but immediately checking every video in the account that was just flagged seems like one of the very first features that would have been coded.

    How many millions of blatantly infringing videos exist on Google and YouTube at this very instant? Something isn't working right with Google's efforts to police the sites. They shouldn't even be bothering with unlisted videos. Moving a video from unlisted to public might be a very good reason to check it out. An unlisted video with excessive traffic might be worth checking out. But an unlisted video with zero views seems sort of pointless.

  • On the post: Google Taking Down Private Videos For Copyright Infringement?

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2008 @ 10:30am

    I just checked my video account at Google and the video is suddenly live again. Fear the power of Techdirt :)

    Actually, I have no idea when it happened, it could have been over the weekend. Google didn't notify me when they unblocked the video. Clearly, I should make it public and share it with the world now :)

  • On the post: Google Taking Down Private Videos For Copyright Infringement?

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 08 Sep, 2008 @ 10:11am

    I'm the Chris O'Donnell in the story. Interesting point on the safe harbor issue. I wonder if the record companies are paying Google to police its own properties? Would that give Google safe harbor cover?

    BTW, this is Google Video, not YouTube.

    I followed the complaint procedures listed on Google but have heard nothing to date.

  • On the post: FBI Apparently Has Nothing Better To Do Than Arrest GNR Album Leaker

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 28 Aug, 2008 @ 08:29am

    I did a blog post in Feb 2006 about leaked songs from Chinese Democracy.

    This guy was a little late to the game.

  • On the post: Patent Office Offers Telecommuters Free Home Broadband, Provided They Itemize Porn Consumption

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 18 Jan, 2007 @ 06:28pm

    My employer gave my office to the new VP Marketing and told me to work from home full time. I was already home 4 days a week anyway, but it was nice to make it official!

  • On the post: The Boy Scouts Now Have An MPAA Merit Badge In Misleading Arguments

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 20 Oct, 2006 @ 07:22pm

    My son just quit Boy Scouts this week. Trust me, Boy Scouts know all about file sharing. If Hollywood is depending on the Boy Scouts to save their 50 year old business plan they will end up very dissapointed.

    As mentioned above, it's not a merit badge. It's a commerative patch. Anybody can offer one - it means nothing officially. It does not contribute to rank advancement and in fact can not be worn on the uniform.

  • On the post: Yahoo Lets Outsiders Get Inside Its Email

    Chris ODonnell ( profile ), 02 Oct, 2006 @ 10:38am

    What if you could use you YahooID to log into blogs to comment? An authentication system with 200 million users on day 1 would be a big deal I think.