Australian Teen fools YouTube and gets hundreds of ABC Clips removed
A 15-year old Australian teenager has managed to get hundred of clips removed from YouTube, the popular Internet video sharing Web site. He succeeded in doing so by pretending to be an employee of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).
The crafty young boy sent a signed letter to YouTube saying that he represented ABC, the owner of the copyright to a popular local comedy series. He asked YouTube to remove clips from the series called ‘The Chaser’s War on Everything’.
Soon after, the clips from this series were actually removed by YouTube, and were replaced by this message: “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Australian Broadcasting Corporation.”
But soon after, the 15-year old youth was contacted by lawyers for the ABC. According to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the boy did apologize.
“We really appreciate that he’s apologized and we’ll be following up with him next week,” Gibson added.
Well, this 15-year old Austrlian boy certainly managed to embarrass the Google-owned video-sharing web site, YouTube. It’s no surprise really, since YouTube has been going through rough waters for a long time now with regards to copyright issues with various media companies.
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April 17th, 2007 at 10:59 am
That’s a surprise to me that the company expects an apology out of the boy.
I don’t know anything about Australian TV, but I would have expected that ABC to go down Viacom’s path.
April 21st, 2007 at 5:27 pm
Smart Kid. I wish i had thought of that first..