shadron Philosopher



Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 5,918

Wildy Originally Posted by From what I understand Youtube haven't been doing a good job regarding DMCA claims and some people believe that they are not very consistent in their banning/suspension policies.



I believe that Thunderf00t was suspended by Youtube for doing, erm... I don't actually know what he did wrong, he was just suspended.



Thunderf00t has sent many complaints through the normal youtube channel for complaints about votebots attacking his videos, and has never gotten any response. This time he decided to send a message directly to the director of ads under the theory that they can ignore the publishers and the customers, but they can't ignore their revenue source. He timed it for late Friday two weeks ago, and then he dropped a video about how to do it on his channel. Lots of thunderf00t's subscribers picked up the cue and sent email to youtube's ads channel. Youtude responded by Saturday night, removing the video and suspending his channel. Ever ready, thunderf00t sent out another video about it to be mirrored by a host of friends. By Sunday, youtube, with their channel for ads jammed with messages, reinstated thunderf00t's channel, effectively shouting, "Uncle!". He released a video asking everyone to cool it - they'd demonstrated that there really was a youtube management behind the curtain, and that they did pay attention under certain conditions. It didn't have anything to do with DCMA except inasmuch as youtube reacts, as it must, to DCMA claims, but is slow to fix the resulting errors, just as it is to fixing votebot problems.



You can find the videos on thunderf00t's channel. I understand there was a pretty heavy reaction by youtubers to the Randi channel shutdown, too. Don't you think it is somewhat silly to be posting when you don't know what the facts are? Do your fingers simply demand the exercise?Thunderf00t has sent many complaints through the normal youtube channel for complaints about votebots attacking his videos, and has never gotten any response. This time he decided to send a message directly to the director of ads under the theory that they can ignore the publishers and the customers, but they can't ignore their revenue source. He timed it for late Friday two weeks ago, and then he dropped a video about how to do it on his channel. Lots of thunderf00t's subscribers picked up the cue and sent email to youtube's ads channel. Youtude responded by Saturday night, removing the video and suspending his channel. Ever ready, thunderf00t sent out another video about it to be mirrored by a host of friends. By Sunday, youtube, with their channel for ads jammed with messages, reinstated thunderf00t's channel, effectively shouting, "Uncle!". He released a video asking everyone to cool it - they'd demonstrated that there really was a youtube management behind the curtain, and that they did pay attention under certain conditions. It didn't have anything to do with DCMA except inasmuch as youtube reacts, as it must, to DCMA claims, but is slow to fix the resulting errors, just as it is to fixing votebot problems.You can find the videos on thunderf00t's channel. I understand there was a pretty heavy reaction by youtubers to the Randi channel shutdown, too.