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  • That's easy, the FRCP precludes malicious defense as well as prosecution.

  • Amazing how he has Stephen Colbert's book among his regular lawbooks.

    What a shyster, he never would have made it at Harvard; meanwhile in law school I made the Dean's List and Honor Roll in my first term.

  • @SovereignStatesman

    Ad hominem. Care to address the content of his speech? Preferably with legal arguments, since that's apparently your area of expertise.

  • I saw that copy of I Am America (And So Can You) back there.

    Excellent read.

  • @person221

    It figures why he has to work for the ACLU, since no firm would hire him.

  • hey i'm still getting fucked. ACLU and eff won't do a damned thing for me

  • @EFFIsAFraud

    They're a token-front organization that only chases headlines.

  • 7:25 is hilarious

  • wow screw you viacom!!! how dare they -__-! and youtube Honestly wtf dont be lazy and put the videos back!

  • This guy was a fellow student with me in Palos Verdes, California. This guy has obviously taken a stance to try to gain some sort of recognition because in school this guy was quiet.

  • Maybe he just didn't talk to losers who thought they had everyone figured out.

  • @tootsie173sc

    He probably reads a scripted paper so he doesn't make any mistakes while speaking. When you make videos with the primary purpose of informing, it's often a good idea, it's why news channels do it :P

  • @atheistchaos

    Like Obama!

    ROTFLMAO

  • Democracy is dead.

    Transnational mega-corporations are our new government.

  • Stephen Colbert

  • Yay, "I Am America (And So Can You!) " in the background!

  • does viacom own the copyright on bandit.. anyhow allen YOU ARE MY HERO........a voice in this darkness...like to see a list of what vicom products are.....would like to add a toilet paper line...boy would i like the profit off that one.......john locke lyric pines

  • Just goes to show, copyrights and patents are used by corrupt governments to turn companies into large, monopolistic monsters that destroy small businesses and dominate the economy. That's why most people today are employed instead of self-employed. There is no better way to trap the masses, limit their wealth, and tax their incomes than with copyrights and patents.

  • LOL demetri martin is awesome

  • if you stop at the part when it says they suspendid his account that thing said and ...poof!... is like it never existed thats baclily like a kid trying to manage youtube mabye idk

  • As a conservative, I disagree with alot of what liberalviewer says in his videos, yet I will admit that he is correct in some of them, like this one. Thanks liberalviewer.

  • As a conservative, I agree with almost everything LiberalViewer says in his videos, particularly his criticism of certain news coverage.

  • so,the liberalviewer shows his face, why am i not suprised that he looks like a nerd?

  • Because you're judgmental?

  • no, i admit i was very nerdy when i was younger, he just seems like the kind of person who got bullied at school, but if thats not true, then im sorry if i offended him

  • I got bullied at school, is that detrimental to ones character now?

  • sometimes it makes you bitter, but liberalviewer seems..kinda content with his life, i know he has a kid, but is he married?

  • your voice is awesome but i disagree on your vids i just had to say that its a cool voice it makes you sound younger

  • funny his face doesn't match the voice anyways ur channel still rocks

  • Ah yes, he really needs a life? Have you even watched any of his videos? I doubt it. All of them are well thought out, decently articulated, and make very pertinent points. Yes, his ending questions are always a little biased, but show me any video here (or anywhere really) of a similar make, that isn't. If all you can do is insult w/o backing it up, then you really shouldn't waste the time. You just come off as a vacuous fool.

  • Were you expecting some sort of Herculean God?

  • Intellectual property is a young peice of legislation which is gradually being tweaked and changed. UK and U.S laws are similar, but it appears the english legal system sympathises with defendants. For those who want to know a little about UK intellectual property...

    trade marks are protected for a maximum of 10 years which, have to be reviewed,

    copyrights are protection for 70 years plus the life span of the author

    Patents are protected for 20 years plus 5 if European laws are brought in

  • Ending was funny considering, yes, we are.

  • has anyone ever told you that you have a really great voice?

  • I totally agree! his voice is easy to listen to, deep yet soothing!

    I don't know why people are commenting on his looks. I am astonished that instead of being outraged on what is being said and done by youtube, people are making stupid comments about this gentleman!

  • You look just like my dad.

  • wouldent you be the fool not him because im just guessing but he is a hell of a lot smarter than you try to prove me otherwise please

  • Oh, come on! If you're going to be an asshole, take it to the mac!

    No mention of him being some kind of godless hippie communist?

  • Yeah, if that's your only argument against liberal viewer, then I can't help but laugh at you. Please, give us something that actually counts as an argumentative point.

  • Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!!

  • i tried uploded family guy and put ad's for other fox programs in the description. but i took it down because i a;ready have TWO account warnings. but does anyone think that would have work?

  • The difference between a law firm and a bait shop is that one is full of bloodsuckers, leeches, maggots, bottomfeeders, snakes, nightcrawlers, and other vile, slimy disgusting scum while the other is just a bait shop. My apologies to maggots, snakes, leeches, nightcrawlers, etc. who were offended by this lawyer joke.

  • @JohnHolmes3000 It seems everyone hates lawyers......

    ...until you need one.

  • @PaulinaPaulino

    It's the fact that thanks to Lincoln and Jackson, the courts now are the supreme and final judge of their own powers, and therefore they've grown far more powerful than originally intended-- and the law has grown accordingly less representative of the People vs. the government.

  • @SovereignStatesman What you claim would be true IF there were not a way to remove Judges form their positions.

    In 99% of cases, Judges are elected.

    In the 1% of cases where they are appointed for life (this covers exactly 9 people) even THEY can be removed by impeachment.

    You may be a Sovereign Statesman, but your knowledge of the Constitution is limited at best.

  • @PaulinaPaulino

    First of all shit-head, ALL federal judges are appointed for life-- and last I checked, there were more than 9.

    Likewise, if they are impeached and removed then they are no longer federal judges, DERP!

    I need constitutional lessons from you, like Chuck Yaeger needs flying lessons from Little Nemo.

  • How pleasing to listen to this victory. The legal system can literally choke you with red,  or is it pink, tape.

    Stefan

  • fantastic end "check it out im buffering"

  • Good job. Way to stick through all of this and see your way to victory. Congratulations. Your efforts and the results that were produced will pave the way for others found in the same situation.

    However, I must agree with the others here - this country (and the world for that matter) has been taken over by elitist criminals who will use any means necessary to subjugate and control us all.

    Nevertheless, if we are to fight against this tyranny, it must be done on all fronts. Especially here.

  • The terrorists won when they dismantled the constitution. Which is what they need in order to start their war for oil in the Middle East.

  • America has been hijacked by terrorist. These terrorists are not Muslim. They are not even Arab. These terrorists are national and international bankers and elitists. The Carnagies, Rothchilds, Murdocks, and the British Royal Family just to name a few. They created and control the (non federal) federal reserve bank and other banks which control America. They will invade Iran. They will steal more elections until we have a Revolution. Bush & Cheny will hang for war crimes.

  • "Law" exists for no other reason than to protect and serve the rich and powerful. It doesn't matter what the law actually says, if a multibillion dollar company says "jump" the US courts tend to say "how high?".

  • I JUST POSTED THE DAILY SHOW VIACOM

  • Should we stop buying VIACOM DVD's movies?

    shoud we stop going to theaters to watch VIACOM produced movies??

    would that stop Viacom???

    would that show them not to mess with youtubers??

  • I have watched over 16,950 videos since October 31, 2006.

    This is the most important video on YouTube right now.

    CLICK THE SHARE TAB to spread this video to your friends and subscribers.

    Give the response videos some love too.

  • The Hon. Louis Stanton, an 81 year old Reagan appointee, may not fully appreciate the effects of his formal discovery ruling adversely affecting the privacy of younger generations. Interesting that his Wikipedia biography has been repeatedly edited since yesterday! I urge you to leave your carefully considered comment in the "Discussion" section of Judge Louis Stanton's Wikipedia biography.

  • conservatives are that great either

  • i assume you meant -Aren't. And I agree

  • Generally these kinds of notices are meant to scare people into compliance not so much to be legally correct.

  • I found the last part funny "Am I on youtube right now? Check it out, I'm buffering." LOL XD

  • this situation you found yourself in isn't off character for large corporate entities.

    they will often attemt to claim that you are in the wrong, in regards to rules,regulations,laws often which are disigned to be as confusing as possible.

    then if you question the validity they will attempt to bring "large amounts" of money into the arguement.

    as an attempt to price check you into submission from fears of penalties.

    and then only after you spend money and time will they do what is law.

  • many thing's in the legal system really are screwed up

  • Go back to school and learn the definitions of disease and liberalism.

  • Conservatism is often fatal.

  • yes it is friend. they should be put out of their misery once and for all.

  • interesting...thanks for the info, and keep fighting the good fight, bruthaman

  • My friend tomken8dy and myself had two videos taken down last Saturday for copyright infringement. There had to be a mistake because there was no infringement regarding music or anything. So, we are still waiting. I hate that we are guilty until we can prove our innocence. Our videos are much more clearer if YT would have taken the time to view them. I'm subscribed because this is a major problem on YT.

  • KEEP PUNCHIN'!!

  • GOD BLESS YOU

  • That's kinda scary for you, that's a big corporation. I hope everything works out alright, but that's a tall order for one person to have to prove. It's all dumb, in the end: I understand their right to protect their property, but cmon...it's the 21st century. I record every episode of Daily Show/Colbert Report on my PC's tv tuner into mpeg form. I can make copies of those videos and give it to friends...and there's nothing viacom can do about it and I'm not hurting their bottom line

  • army of lawyers a clear threat to you this country runs the same way now inside the country using fear.Gotten worst sorry to say since Murdock bought you tube. now all get gov. immunity against the people who they claim to serve. quite the opposite and sad one has to take on the beast alone else have the battery of lawyers who's gain came from the working class fodder handed down from the parents to sick sons. they will box car you in.

  • So this is your real voice? - lol

  • Actually, the more educated you are, the more statistically likely you are to be both politically and religiously liberal. Conservatives tend to favor going into the military instead of going to college. That's why universities will always be liberal, and the armed forces will always be conservative.

  • I would like to see some statistics of that

  • what are the stats on you being able to mail vids from here? i am batting 0 and wondering why billion dollar business cant get it right as i get internal error all the time now.

  • There are not many in the military with an IQ below 90. This is because of the testing required. Contrast to the population, where greater than 1/3 of the population is below this IQ level. College graduates with no graduate school are more likely to be Republican. Graduate tudents/professors/professiona­ls with advanced degrees are more likely to be Democrats. Evaluate the educational level of the two groups which make up the strength of the Dem Party, single moms and blacks.

  • So it's a complicated picture. Presenting it as Liberals=educated/enlightened is deeply flawed.

  • OH NO! HE OWNS BOOKS! Of course anyone that owns a bookshelf is trying to look smarter than they are instead of NEEDING TO PUT ALL THEIR BOOKS IN ONE PLACE!

    Nice voice by the way :-)

  • "Do you think it makes you look smarter by sitting in front of a bookcase? Liberals are the ones with highschool or GED diplomas, so stop trying to act like someone your not."

    This is why people think Conservatives are ignorant, because of the sheer ridiculousness of anti-liberal comments like this. Yea, Liberals tend to have HS/GED Diplomas... whereas Conservatives don't get even that far, they just join the military and go a'shootin.

  • The operative word there is "some".

  • The ACLU does some good stuff.

  • HONISTLY I hate viacom

  • I'm no liberal, but good video!

  • I am on youtube via sony playstation 3 computer. So far I am unable to upload my videos to youtube to share with fellow youtuber's. When I asked youtube for reason why youtube replied, you have to contact sony concerning this matter. When I asked sony for reason why sony replied,you will need to contact youtube concerning this matter. This whole thing reminds me of when I was a child, and being told by my father that I have to ask mother about that. I wont to know whats going on!

  • I took a class on media law recently and if I learned anything, it's that your videos are absolutely fair use of copyrighted materials (although copyright itself is becoming an absolute joke in the modern era of free information). Thanks, I'm a fan.

  • Youtube is a free web site. It's purpose is to make money. You are using it as a liberal political site. They could ban you entirely for any reason whatsoever. If someone complains that you are trying to promote liberal candidates for office for example you would be gone. Pretty good idea.

  • prrolg,

    I tried to find a sentence in your comment that didn't have some factual or logical flaw in it. The closest I could come was "Youtube is a free web site" (though the YouTube website does have ads and Google paid over a billion dollars for it)

    Thx 4 commenting :-)

  • So YT could ban you for any reason isn't factual and their purpose is not to make money. Ok. Libs will swallow that whole. How about this. You are being paid to put up your site?

  • prrolg,

    The purpose of YouTube is to watch and share videos. And, if you look at the YouTube terms of use, you'll find they give users more DMCA rights than you might expect. Tho, as stated in this vid, I'm not a copyright expert, I did some research showing that for YouTube to be protected by the DMCA, YouTube must detail their users DMCA rights including "termination in APPROPRIATE circumstances." See 17 USC § 512(i)(1)(A)

    MORE:

  • MORE:

    And, no, I have never been paid anything for anything I've done on YouTube (though the ACLU of Hawaii sent me a T-shirt thanking me for publicizing their fight to put up a Christmas Tree last year). I was, however, recently offered a spot in the YouTube partner program which may earn me a little $ for a lot of views in the future and my partnership agreement w/YouTube also affects YouTube's ability to "ban [me] for any reason."

    Thx 4 commenting :-)

  • I read 17 512 (i)(1)(A). Appropriate circumstances means? It is not defined. Let's say I DMCA your video claiming your critism of Fox News and Neil Cavuto's interview of Michael Newdow is anti-christian. I have a team of lawyers to sue YT and $1million to spend. They would remove your account rather than get sued. NO? And it is unbelievable that as an ACLU chapter president your LiberalViewer site isn't helped in some way by them.If I were you I would never admit anything online. No way.

  • Is there anything that binds YT to allowing you free access to their website? Couldn't they just cut say 1/2 of all accounts for their own reasons? Or is it sort of like Pres Bush not being allowed to fire some federal prosecutors when Pres Clinton fired all of them without a peep out of mainstream news? Just depends on how much noise comes out of the protests?

  • There's a huge difference between federal obligations and private ones.

  • prrolg wrote: "I read 17 512 (i)(1)(A). Appropriate circumstances means? It is not defined."

    Defining "appropriate circumstances" might require litigation, but its one of the factors contradicting your flat claim that YouTube can terminate for "any reason whatsoever" which was my point. "Appropriate circumstances" include fewer circumstances than "any reason whatsoever."

    Thx 4 commenting :-)

  • prrolg wrote: "it is unbelievable that as an ACLU chapter president your LiberalViewer site isn't helped in some way by them.If I were you I would never admit anything online."

    I'm not an "ACLU chapter president," this video is about how my local ACLU helped me, and, u seem to be accusing me not just of not "admitting anything online," but rather of actually lying in that I affirmatively told u I have NOT been "helped in some way" other than I've described.

    Thx 4 comments :-)

  • "Check it out. I'm buffering" Hilarious!

  • watch?v=NpqgWW0z7vM

  • You have a pretty soothing voice .

  • Oh, poor tem07. Was he using too many big words for you to understand?

  • On a related topic:

    Larry Lessig: How Creativity is being strangled by the law:

    watch?v=7Q25-S7jzgs

  • FairMindedCitizen,

    This video is a video response to that video

    Thx 4 the comment :-)

  • So it is, I missed that, good choice.

  • FairMindedCitizen,

    Actually, it was my second choice after the video "Viacom Vs. Youtube" uploaded by DMCAisCRAP. That was my first choice b/c it has the full Daily Show segment from which I took clips. But, DMCAisCRAP didn't accept my video response, so I went to my second choice (which I almost chose as my first choice). I had just updated my choice a few minutes before your post

    Thx 4 commenting :-)

  • Wow, you are awesome. I think Tom Petty wrote a song that sums up what I think about you:

    "Well I know what's right, I got just one life

    in a world that keeps on pushin' me around

    but I'll stand my ground and I won't back down"

  • I really like the phrase: "An army of lawyers and untold sums of money in litigation fees" It just sounds so..... crazy.

  • great vid

  • Viacom ruins pretty much everything it touches.  It ruined Comedy Central, and is currently ruining Youtube. God only knows how many other good channels it completely destroyed over the years.

  • This reminds me of an acid trip when I rediscovered the notion of infinite regression. Talking about talking about talking about.....something that somebody else owns. It's the Land o' Lakes Indian woman but told by a lawyer.

  • You're the man (the little man), but you're still the man!

  • Interesting. Thanks for sharing this experience.

  • holy crap, was that the sacramento bee, as in, you're from sacto?  anyway, great vid, keep up the good work!

  • isaachaze1,

    Yeah, I've lived in Sacto for about 8 years now. I've gotten a few articles covering my YouTube adventures in the Bee. Are u in Sacto?

    Thx 4 the comment :-)

  • Ha! that's funny. small world. i've been a fan of your vids for some time now. yes, i'm an atty (family law and some civ. lit.) here in sacto. i stopped reading the bee, so i missed the articles about you. keep up the good work!

  • You are one of my newest heros. Copyright was never originally meant to be used to censor people. Great job fighting these bastards.

  • I don't think they were purposefully trying to censor him. They were just hot after Youtube and Google and they were trying to make things as difficult as possible. You know, throw a mile-long list of take-downs at the company they were suing. Youtube obviously believed they had no choice and just complied. Youtube is a free service and I realy don't believe that people should complain unless they were paying for it.

  • Is entertainment as important as air or water? Arguably not, but I think you'll be hard pressed to find a society devoid of entertainment. And what of the Writers? The animators? All those people who put bread on their tables by doing their job, which is entertainment? Oh, and you're assuming monoplies are always bad.

  • Patents for important products that make life easier and more comfortable are great, but I think getting some dumbass copyright for digital or creative material is bullshit. Entertainment is great, but it's not necessary to survive on planet Earth. The market should be truly competitive when it comes to creative material, and copyrights don't do that. Even an economics textbook admits that copyrights create a monopoly that only the original creator can break.

  • The age of "little guy ingenuity" is here, and either the big corporations can suck it up and deal with it, or they can continue these waste-of-money lawsuits trying to take down one user or video a day while 1000s more pop up. It's as futile as the War on Terror in eliminating all terrorism. Protectionism only protects failing industries rather than letting them adapt to the changing times. The RIAA, Viacom and these other big corps. can kiss my fucking ass!

  • It's funny, because on the other side of the system we think it's amusing how easy it is for us to knock down 1000s of videos whereas users have to spend lots of time and energy to upload them.

  • The big corporations are scared! They know they're losing an uphill battle, and like a frantic chicken w/ its head cut off, they don't know what to do. So they ask the gov't for protectionism because of this copyright crap. They're a bunch of megalomaniacs who think NO ONE should be able to use their shows long after they premiered and show on tv because someone might "criticize us" and hold their feet to the fire.

  • These digital copyright laws are too damn strict. What right should Viacom have in telling me I can't use some of their material for a creative video of my OWN?? Or how come I shouldn't be allowed to use wrestling clips to make a tribute video to someone like the Undertaker? Once I compile all those clips, it's MY creation. I came up with the idea and put it together, NOT fucking Viacom or Google! Shame on you, Chad and Steven, for giving Youtube over to fucking Google.

  • "What right should Viacom have in telling me I can't use some of their material for a creative video of my OWN"

    You have to understand that on a certain level, the idea of using someone else's material for your own creative video is oxymoronic. They paid for and have a stake in their content, what right do you have to hurt their brand or use their property as you want?

  • So making a decoupage collage out of magazine adverts is infringing on copyright laws? How about Mattel suing the guy who used a Barbie doll in his art exhibit( which they lost, by the way)?

    "Sorry, you scummy capitalist pig-dogs; the First Amendment is every artist's friend." -quote from a friend

  • I'm not saying using someone else's material and seriously altering to make your own creative piece is as cut and dry as taking something of theirs and stamping your name on it. But it's not the same as making something yours from the ground up, either.

    (cont.)

  • (cont.)

    Personally I think as long as the idea behind the piece is original and it's greatly edited from it's original content, then that's acceptable (and the law pretty much says that). But media corporations have their own interests to protect, and if they think you're hurting them they have a right to defend themselves.

  • Some day people are going to find that the first amendment is a limb they have gone to far out on. When they fall no one will care to catch them.

  • Sir, you are my hero.

    Keep speaking truth to power.

  • It's so weird how youtube seems like it's run by 4 guys who don't understand their own business.

  • TheGiantRobot,

    It was weird to me that I had to explain the DMCA to YouTube. Plus, a big part of Google's business model is based on fair use (eg Google News searching and displaying fair use text from news stories), so I'm surprised, even after the Google buyout, that YouTube was so much on the wrong side of the fair use issue.

    Thx 4 subscribing and commenting :-)

  • I suspect that's because of the "marketing people."

    As buisnesses grow, that is, as they make money. Conservative (non-political) behaviors set in. The tendancy to want to 'keep making money' starts to overshadow the 'what we want to do' in the buisness model.

    When people just do what they want, they're leaders - and money follows. When they simply want money and chase after it - quality degrades.

    -Qes

  • Favorited. This is so worthy of friendly spam...

  • Newman!

  • 5&F !!!

    SOOO been looking forward to this upload, Allen! :D

    you're the YouTube Hero of the Day! :D

  • There's a collective effort in this country to demonize the ACLU with distortions. If they bothered to look into its history and what it stands for, their outlooks would be overhauled.

  • BB - very true.

    and LV's earlier clips on the ACLU are among the best examples of that.

    one in particular, from almost a year ago, is on my 'Best of the Rest' playlist, for exactly that reason.

  • You are AMAZING!!

    This is essential viewing.

  • This is important and valuable work that you're doing. Thank you!

  • thanks for the work you are doing for all of us...

  • Nice job... favorited and I will feature part one on my channel soon... thanks for posting this...

  • renetto,

    Thanks for your support last February and your kind words now :-)

  • Renetto, your connections to Libview led me to discover your comments on the "end of youtube" potential.

    I agree with ya. But, I have faith in the chaos that is the interwebs. It's sort of like how capitalism is SUPPOSED to work. Market place of ideas, if youtube fails, google fails, etc - something will rise from these pirate seas to fill the vaccum and give us all solidarity once again.

    "Clean and sterile" cant survive the thick primordial jungle that is the internet.

    -Qes

  • It's weird suddenly seeing your face while you talk '^^

  • Now that Google indexes videos from everywhere it is a one stop shopping place for companies to find out where their videos are posted.

  • Is that bad?

  • Maybe not for the lawyers but since you don't make videos you can't bitch about posting videos for your friends on YT and have to worry about some psycho in Japan finding your videos with a search and fucking with you. I can bitch about that.

  • Wait I'm confused. It sounds to me like you want to be able to post videos on YT but not have people find them? Isn't that kind of... pointless? I mean, if you don't want people to see your videos don't post them or don't make them even.

  • Just because I want make a happy birthday video for a friend with puppets does not mean agree to share it with the world. Google my screename.

  • You can set videos to private. They're not indexed together with everything else, and even if someone finds them they can't be viewed if you don't authorize them thusly.

  • Sorry, I forgot you were talking about videos on other sites now being indexed by Google. Why don't you just send your friend your video, like in an email? I'm just trying to point out the irony of putting a video out on any sort of public linking site and then complaining that people can find it.

  • YT did not tell me that I should do that when I created my first account 14 months ago and so I created an account with my first and last name. I made a hundred videos maybe and had 3 thousand 500 hits on google. There were my videos being critiqued in at least 20 languages and I could not remove them. I started experimenting with ways to stop that and there is no way to stop it. I can still google my first screen name and find out how to email people on my friends list.

  • Fortunately for you I am not a crazy person because I disagree with your paint roller printer analogy.

  • By the way do you know what 2 maanden geleden means? It was above your comment.

  • Did you verify that it is at least as bad as I said it was? Google your screen name and you will probably find your comments being discussed in languages you have not ever seen on blogs you never heard of.

  • I did extensive research on this a year ago. There is no way to stop it. I can set videos to private, disable embedding and delete the video and find it on websites months later.

  • I AM AMERICA AND SO CAN YOU!!!!!!!!

    And you display it so proudly too! Yeaaahh!!!

  • very very very important, this. nice to know how it all worked out.

  • oh yeah, i'm gonna post this on my blog on MobileBroadcastNews (dot) com too!

    go get 'em tiger!!!!

    xox

    skinny

  • skinnychef,

    Thanks for the blog link!

    And, thx 4 the comment :-)