Viacom PWNED on Piracy

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Coulton gave spike's predessor permission to upload the video. (See extensive annotations.) However, viacom OWES ME sixty cents, because, hilariously, they pirated THIS VIDEO. Ask Viacom where my sixty cents is: http://www.viacom.com/contact/Pages/default.aspx

Jonathan Coulton's Flickr video: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/primer/flickr/

Where Is Jonathan Coulton's 37 dollars?

In which John Green examines the complicated relationship between Viacom and piracy: Viacom has filed a lawsuit against YouTube seeking more than a billion dollars in damages for the copyright infringement that was rife in the early days of YouTube. But John proves that spike.com, which is owned by Viacom, has been placing ads against content that doesn't belong to them for years, including Jonathan Coulton's brilliant music video "Flickr."

This video includes a snippet of "Flickr," which is--like this video--released under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons license. All of which is to say: Viacom, if you steal my video like you stole Coulton's, I will sue you.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• intellectual
• property
• laws
• jonathan
• coulton
• viacom
• youtube
• lawsuit
• online media

[Nani101]

John, it makes me smile to see that, despite everything, you're still full of love.

[hizachyo]

Johnathan Coulten... Wasn't he the dude who wrote the Portal songs?

[commenter2498]

@sheeves55 dun dun dunn product placement!

[sheeves55]

has anybody else noticed that there are a lot of copies of Paper Towns are on John's bookshelf?

[Justin1976]

@hizachyo Yes :) AS well as many other awesome songs.

[QuantumTaxation]

John, do tell us if you get your sixty cents so we don't keep asking where it is.

[8MathMech8]

Johnathan Coulton....is........STILL ALIVE!

[carbonedition]

Visit justart.net to see what VIACOM or really VIACON is up to.

[SemisonicNerdfighter]

@hizachyo Yes! and Re: Your Brains

[bulldoger11]

@hizachyo

Correct!

[Alpha1Airsoft]

Why are John's videos louder than Hank's?