Australian teen scams YouTube
p2pnet.net news:- An Australian teenager scammed Google’s YouTube into taking down hundreds of videos removed from the YouTube website by telling its operators that he was from ABC Television.
“The clips included segments from The Chaser’s War on Everything and were placed on the site by other users,” says 720 ABC Perth.
They were dumped when the boy, from Perth and aged 15, “gave YouTube a signed form saying he represented the copyright owners of the video,” says the story.
“Everyone does dumb stuff when they are fifteen,” Associated Press has head of ABC-TV comedy Courtney Gibson saying, going oin:
“But what was of concern to us was the fact that YouTube was sending copyright infringement notices to people who have been uploading Chaser clips to YouTube, threatening to shut down their access to YouTube if they persist.”
The boy has been contacted by the ABC’s lawyers and has since apologised, says 720 ABC.
Also See:
720 ABC Perth – Teen has hundreds of ABC clips taken off YouTube, April 16, 2007
Associated Press – Teen fake polices YouTube clips, April 16, 2007
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April 17th, 2007 at 4:13 am
ABC lawyers sic on the 15-yr-old when he was doing ABC a favor. That’s hilarious!
April 18th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
The Chaser was on last night and right at the end they said … blah blah blah dont forget to download the podcast or you can see us on YouTube if you’re really quick and get in before some 15 year old boy gets us pulled off it !!!
TOOO FUNNY !!!!!!!!!!
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