| YouTube Censorship? |
| Monday, 24 April 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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If it's a technical glitch it's an odd one - sometime late yesterday or this morning I lost the ability to post comments to my profile page on YouTube. Other people apparently can still post comments, and I can post comments to other profile pages, but not my own. Last night I sent an email to YouTube explaining that a certain member, jl9233, should be banned for posting pirated content to YouTube. I am not the rights holder for any of these stolen videos, but I don't need to be because jl9233 admits what he's done on his own profile page: He admits he's taking the clips from pay sites. The word for that is "theft" - end of story. And now my profile has been locked, despite the fact that the only videos I've posted are entirely of my own creation. The thief, jl9233, has posted a number of charges in return at my profile. The reply I have been trying all day to post, to no avail, is this:
Update: So let's get down to it - jl9233 is according to his YouTube profile named "Jeff" and he is a software developer in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is 36 years old. According to his Iris Kyle site profile he likes "Basketball, Football, Tennis, Female Bodybuilding, Reading; Computers" and his email address is jl9233@hotmail.com. He neglected to mention that he likes pirating other people's content, and at his Webshots page he has - surprise, surprise! - posted a bunch of pirated images. Please contact me privately if you have any information regarding his actual identity or other information about jl9233. Additionally, if you are a content provider whose material is being pirated and hosted at YouTube, I have posted the instructions on filing a complaint here. Update 2: It seems this is hardly the first time jl9233 has gotten into trouble for pirating content! There was an enlightening 2003 alt.amazon-women.admirers exchange between jl9233 and the legendary Bill Dobbins over jl9233's unauthorized posting of Dobbins' photography to Webshots. First, someone called "femmusclefan" (using the same email gateway as jl9233 and thus likely a 'sock puppet') complains that all his favorite photos at jl9233's Webshots page are gone! Poor, besieged jl9233 replies to his sock puppet that some nasty person complained to Webshots management, and that he got an email reading: Saddened, jl9233 explains that he's only stealing from photographers to help them publicize their sites. At this point Bill Dobbins chimes in, saying that if jl9233's intentions are so noble, then he should have no problem asking for permission before reposting photos. Here's the best part: next up the dumb sonuvabitch posts a response to Dobbins, with all sorts of typos, from his jl9233 address. Nine minutes later a corrected version is posted from another email address at the same email gateway. The address appears to be an abbreviation of jl9233's actual name. So you can cancel out that request for his actual name from an hour ago. I got it. Related Items:
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