So, this post was going to be post number 7 in my montage series, BUT YouTube has removed the audio from several of my videos without notifying me of the fact (jerks). I’m not entirely sure for how long my montages have been pointless (because without the music–that specific music–the montages are nothing at all). I have gotten notices that my videos had copyrighted material, but they just put ads up on my video. The ads gave the viewer a link to a place they could buy an mp3 of the song. That was fine by me. What is NOT fine is that they took off the audio and left me with crap, all without saying anything.
Look, YouTube. No one is making any money off of this. It’s just a fun, interesting way to see gymnastics. And to the people who made the copyright claims, you’re just mean-spirited. All of us montage-makers take a lot of time and effort to produce these fun videos for the pleasure of other fans and you just ruin it. It doesn’t seem at all fair.
Anyway, my rant here is done. Montages were an amazing thing and great fun. YouTube is just a spoil-sport.
June 7, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Unfortunately Youtube keeps getting sued so this must have been their response. It’s terrible because the montages on youtube are positively awesome.
One would think the copyright holders would realize that no one is profiting off of this use and let people use it.
It sucks royally. I enjoy many a montage and have favorited a ton so I’m sorry to hear about this latest move.