YouTube / Toei Mass Takedown Discussion

Adamant · Post by **Adamant** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 11:36 pm

I have 25 subscribers and still got a movie removed, so I don't think that really makes you safe.

Godo · Post by **Godo** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 6:22 am

I think that we should be happy that they don't file a lawsuit on us. We are breaking the "contract" we signed with Youtube after all.

KaiserNeko · Post by **KaiserNeko** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:26 am

Godo wrote:I think that we should be happy that they don't file a lawsuit on us. We are breaking the "contract" we signed with Youtube after all.

Oh, no! They might sue me for everything I have!

Ha, that wouldn't even pay for their court fees.

MCDaveG · Post by **MCDaveG** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:50 am

Godo wrote:I think that we should be happy that they don't file a lawsuit on us. We are breaking the "contract" we signed with Youtube after all.

That is true, you know if they'll sue me, I won't be able to repay the penalty to end of my life for what I have here: http://www.youtube.com/user/DBZThemes

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:27 am

I just saw a Youtube video of Chris Sabat watching an episode of Dragon Ball Abridged (a fan introduced it to him at a convention). Anyway, he seemed to love it. You don't think he walked into the office the next day going, "Hey guys, check this out!" and FUNimation decided to take it all down?

KaiserNeko · Post by **KaiserNeko** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:30 am

TheGreatness25 wrote:I just saw a Youtube video of Chris Sabat watching an episode of Dragon Ball Abridged (a fan introduced it to him at a convention). Anyway, he seemed to love it. You don't think he walked into the office the next day going, "Hey guys, check this out!" and FUNimation decided to take it all down?

No, because it was Toei who took us down. c.c

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:53 am

Well firstly, I don't know why Toei would do that since it really doesn't affect them. Secondly, I was just making a joke. And thirdly, you never know, FUNimation could've somehow brought it to their attention.

Big Boss · Post by **Big Boss** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:10 am

TheGreatness25 wrote:Well firstly, I don't know why Toei would do that since it really doesn't affect them. Secondly, I was just making a joke. And thirdly, you never know, FUNimation could've somehow brought it to their attention.

TFS had permission from FUNimation.

TheGreatness25 · Post by **TheGreatness25** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:19 am

I was still making a joke reeling from the video I was watching of Chris Sabat enjoying some DBZ Abridged.

Big Boss · Post by **Big Boss** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 11:21 am

TheGreatness25 wrote:I was still making a joke reeling from the video I was watching of Chris Sabat enjoying some DBZ Abridged.

Try adding Emoticons then.

Godo · Post by **Godo** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:04 pm

KaiserNeko wrote:
Godo wrote:I think that we should be happy that they don't file a lawsuit on us. We are breaking the "contract" we signed with Youtube after all.
Oh, no! They might sue me for everything I have!

Ha, that wouldn't even pay for their court fees.

Some media giants in Sweden actually did that. The case was a father whose daughter had downloaded two movies, and shared it via torrents.
Since the father was paying the Internet and since it was registered on his name, he was prosecuted and fined with 20,000 dollars, which was the calculations of their loss, counted on the DVD's value and the times it was downloaded.
Did they make any money on the whole deal? No.
Did they scare the shit out of people and made the Swedes download less? Yes they did.

MCDaveG wrote:
Godo wrote:I think that we should be happy that they don't file a lawsuit on us. We are breaking the "contract" we signed with Youtube after all.
That is true, you know if they'll sue me, I won't be able to repay the penalty to end of my life for what I have here: http://www.youtube.com/user/DBZThemes

That is true too, so I guess an account ban doesn't seem that bad after all?

Myself, I was one of those who uploaded media that I didn't have a right to do. I got a warning and all my videos were removed.
So I decided to quit acting like an amateur and use a proper site instead, whose administration had some balls to begin with.

Kendamu · Post by **Kendamu** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:16 pm

Godo wrote: Some media giants in Sweden actually did that. The case was a father whose daughter had downloaded two movies, and shared it via torrents.
Since the father was paying the Internet and since it was registered on his name, he was prosecuted and fined with 20,000 dollars, which was the calculations of their loss, counted on the DVD's value and the times it was downloaded.
Did they make any money on the whole deal? No.
Did they scare the shit out of people and made the Swedes download less? Yes they did.

They used to do that here in the USA, but within the past year or so they stopped because it wasn't scaring anyone anymore.

ChibiGoku · Post by **ChibiGoku** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 11:54 pm

Well, looks like it isn't just Youtube that Toei is going after. They're now going after torrents. Came to my attention after we were trying to figure out why the one group's fansub of DragonBall Kai got removed from a torrent tracker:

<mxs> Hello. Any admins/ops around ?
<mxs> well, then in the channel: Please do not readd Dragonball Kai to the scarywater page. DMCA notices from Toei received.
<mxs> (they came via BayTSP, i.e. Toei specifically hired a US firm to do that for them)

They're certainly stepping it up a notch.