We Didn't Start the Fire...But Youtube put it out

[failsticks]

i agree youtube is unfair and should at least notify. plus it isnt like you are saying you wrote the song!!

[maxdude12]

How old are you? If you are over 80 then i will believe that you wrote that yourself.

[96kanglemire]

that was gayy

[YOUDEADXD]

lulz

[JudgeAdvocateGeneral]

I know Youtube can VERY irksome!

I wanted to remve one of my videos, would they let me? Would they B*ggary!

Well, I suppose they would, but they didn't tell me how!

And how am I supposed to close up my account, other than going round telling everyone that they are a Mother-F*cker? Hmm? Just tell me that?!

*ahem* sorry, rant over with...

[IaMeDwArDcUlLeNsGrL]

omg this just pisses me off too! so sorry dude...they should have notified you!

[Mattie150]

You Broke The Rules You Big Baby.....Deal With It. You Took That Others Guys Video And Broke The Copy-Right Laws. Youtube Did What Was Right. They Didn't Need To E-Mail You. You Did something Wrong. They Wanted You To Find It Out The Hard Way. Just Saying =)

[TheKidWithNoUsername]

@Mattie150 please,she didnt steal "another guys video".she was sharing billy joel's music.do you know how many people upload lyrics for there favorite song???you probably did it too!if i uploade it,and saw they claimed copyright,i would have removed it,but youtube left all of those videos muted,leaving the user with millions of negative comments and unhappy fans.

[aszypula]

i completely agree with you SkateTroe 5/5

[groberts03]

WOW billy joels going to loose millions because of Skateys video , its a bloody old song and he isnt getting his royalitys most likely for it.

Brillant reply Skatey , politely done and proved a point.

Utube need to look at how they do things regardless of what the terms & conditions say its called "COURTOSEY AND MANNERS" .

courstosey and manners arent a privaledge its a given, good to see that you didnt sink to their level Skatey

[RandomGuyReviews]

Wow...That's gay.

Not the video,But what Youtube did.

[jedidree]

Well you obviously figured it out, so YouTube got its message through without having to tell you.

Maybe they believed you were smart enough to realize your broke copyright law, but if you want to prove that they should assume you are stupid by this video go for it.

Furthermore YouTube has no legal responsibility to tell you why your video has been banned/edited. Those Terms of Agreement you lightly click "yes" to contain all that information.

[Slipknotdefender]

y should u care? if u dont like his reaction to wat youtube did to him, then look up some other videos :P

[jedidree]

I completely agree with SkateTroe that YouTube shouldn't have taken the sound off his video and if they did tell him why. (I had a video banned and I still do not know why.)

However I'm trying to give the other side here, shine some light on the shadow you all have created.

[Slipknotdefender]

i agree with ur "sheading light" idea, but u do hav to realise that on youtube, if u hav an opinion that the majority of people wont agree with...they'll probably call u names and dismiss ur ideals just cause they dont kno u or ur worth lol, im just saying that its kind of a risk to post ur own opinions on the internet...y do ppl feel the need to judge it? who knows

[SkateTroe]

I must agree with you on some points. Technically, I -did- break copywrite laws, and technically, YouTube has no responsibility to tell me. That part certainly is true.

As for your second paragraph, I disagree entirely with you on that. I'm not stupid for realizing that my video has been muted. I don't exactly visit my videos every day.

You see, a video like this is completely ruined without the audio. There's no point in having it up because no one knows what's going on.

[jedidree]

Yep, I do see your point there; however your video isn't completely ruined. It is possible that you may upload it on another site or even your own site as well as email to friends and family.

So although your work has a limited success due to copyright laws, it is not a total waste.

I saw your video and it is good work, it would be a silly thing to get your account banned for resubmitting banned material, it would be better to stay on YouTube.

[SkateTroe]

Also, what happens if someone doesn't get why it was muted when they gave the artist credit. Some people would have no idea as to what happened. Who knows, maybe they'll just repost their video, thinking something went wrong.

And one other thing I don't understand. Since YouTube probably cut the audio at the request of Billy Joel, why? Couldn't this be considered free publicity? Make people want to go out and buy aan album just to see what other songs he's made?

It just doesn't make sense.

[jedidree]

The only thing I could think of was that he has his own video up on youtube, he must want people to only watch that one; however I found this song (with an unofficial video) on another site.

[GodofEverything46239]

Lol They ReMoved My Audio.. & I Didnt ReMove it & they put it back on XD

[crazydiamondnumber11]

GREAT VIDEO!I would have done the same thing but I would have used some bad words.

[kman060]

I like your title :p

[yanke000]

do you really think google, a multi-billion dollar company, is going to take there time and notify you, telling you did something illegal, no, they dont give a rats ass about you

[SkateTroe]

That reminds me of the monopoly problem from years ago. When a big business used unfair strategies to be the only business of its kind, people would cover up with "It's business," Which apparently rules out any forms of morality.

That ties in here because it's common courtisy to tell someone when you ruin someone else's thing, such as a video of theirs. But, "It's business," so all rules of morality and courtisy are immedeatly ruled out. That's not right.

[Slipknotdefender]

lol, i tell u one thing, i'd be pissed to if i worked on something for so long only to hav corperate assholes rip it apart :P

[SkateTroe]

By the way, Yanke000, don't think I'm yelling at you. I'm just really p***ed off right now.

[amn22492]

yes

[SupapuS]

i agree!

[zuxozopi]

exactly. WTF youtube. It's a conspiracy I tell you...

[aodfia]

nice. agreed.