UPDATE: 8:00 pm cdt: google video restores both of our barack obama videos!
Barack Obama Speech: A More Perfect Union
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Barack Obama Grovels Before His Ashkenazi Masters at AIPAC 04 June 2008
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yesterday we received in rapid succession the following emails from google video:
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:16:14 -0000
From: "Google Video Support" video-contentid@google.com
To: wesawthat@gmail.com
Subject: Google Video Content Identification
Dear member,
This is to notify you that your video "Barack Obama Grovels Before His
Ashkenazi Masters at AIPAC 04 June 2008" from your Google Video account
has been disabled because it has been identified by our Content
Identification tools as potentially lacking the necessary copyright
authorization for use on the Google Video site. Content Identification is
a program that analyzes similarities in audio or video between user videos
and a library of reference content provided to us by copyright owners.
When a video matches a reference file, that video is automatically
disabled.
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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:16:18 -0000
From: "Google Video Support" video-contentid@google.com
To: wesawthat@gmail.com
Subject: Google Video Content Identification
Dear member,
This is to notify you that your video "Barack Obama Speech: A More Perfect
Union" from your Google Video account has been disabled because it has
been identified by our Content Identification tools as potentially lacking
the necessary copyright authorization for use on the Google Video site.
Content Identification is a program that analyzes similarities in audio or
video between user videos and a library of reference content provided to
us by copyright owners. When a video matches a reference file, that video
is automatically disabled.
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google video disables two barack obama videos that had been live for months. senator obama's 'a more perfect union' speech had been live since 18 march 2008 and had been viewed thousands of times. senator obama's aipac speech had been live for over two and a half months. after all this time, google video suddenly discovers that they might lack the necessary copyright authorization for use on the google video site?
sounds suspicious to us -- like earlier this month when googles' blogger tards went around and "locked" many, many blogs including this one under the pretense of being suspected spam blogs. only thing was, was that after bloggers began comparing notes -- it turned out that most, if not all, the blogs that were locked were either overtly anti-obama blogs or could be perceived as being unfriendly to senator obama. see new york sun [via drudge] 'anti-obama bloggers say they were silenced' for one news report about the incident.
now we have google video arbitrarily taking down senator obama's videos. we can say that google video acted arbitrarily with respect to the 'a more perfect union speech' because back in march on the day of or within a day or two after we uploaded it, someone from nbc/universal (it was recorded from msnbc) clicked through to this blog from the link provided in the video's details page. so if nbc cared about the video being posted then why didnt they file a copyright claim back then? hmmm.
