False filing of DMCAs

This video is a result of a collaboration between the following you tube users;

AndromedasWake, AronRa, cdk007, djarm67, DonExodus2, dprjones, ExtantDodo, potholer54, ThetaOmega and Thunderf00t

We all share an interest in science and we have respect for the advancements and benefits that science has brought us. The internet is one example of this.

We believe that the internet offers extraordinary and valuable opportunities for education, and through sites such as you tube, a forum for open discussion and exchange of views. In order for people to fully benefit from the internet, freedom of speech, freedom of expression and a lack of censorship are essential.
We are concerned that there are some people who are attempting to prohibit free speech on the internet. They are doing so by the unwarranted service of notices under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, ("DMCA").

We recognise that Copyright is an important legal right for copyright owners to protect their work against plagiarism and exploitation. The DMCA provides a method for service providers to protect themselves from financial penalties resulting from copyright lawsuits. Service providers may however adhere to this order without actually verifying the validity of the claim.

However, we are also aware that some people are misusing the DMCA. They are issuing notices that are not a legitimate attempt to protect their copyright, but are a cynical way of attempting to prevent adverse comment on, and criticism of, their views. They are using it maliciously, wrongly and probably illegally. We consider such actions to be abhorrent. It is a sick and cowardly way of attempting to restrict free speech and limit the potential of the internet for education.

Some of us have been subjected to such notices.

We are sure that our own experiences are not the only occasions when the DMCA has been misused.

We would like to know how often it is happening? Who else has been served with DMCA notices? Who served these notices? What happened as a result?

We would like to hear from you by contacting us at the channel DMCAabuse (not this one) if you have been served with a DMCA notice that you consider was issued in order to prohibit free expression rather than to protect copyright. (Any information you send us will be treated with confidentiality and will not be disclosed without your prior permission.)

We believe that opportunity for education, freedom of expression and freedom of speech are causes worth protecting. We want to do what we can to protect them.

Please help us do that.

Thank you.

http://www.youtube.com/DMCAabuse

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• potholer54
• DMCA
• censorship
• YouTube

[Euphobia1]

My video Darwin v Adam & Eve has been removed. What do I do now?

[potholer54]

I just checked, and it's still there. Sometimes this is just due to a temporary YouTube glitch.

[WolYou]

Creationists are ignorant monkeys. They're trying to establish another era of inquisition.

[Gerrrry]

I'm sorry potholer54, I love your videos, but youtube has always been pro censorship and you are supporting that by using and promoting youtube as your platform. If six people thumb down my comment you will see what I mean. The very thing you are fighting has been happening for as long as youtube has been in existance and yet people like yourself still decided to publish your material to youtube as apposed to another service that was pro free speech and actually treated their users with respect.

[KingOystar]

I love the bird on Aron Ra's shoulder!

[N33DL3R]

I never knew AronRa was a pirate.

[collintmay]

@pebi86

>2011

>NephilimFree

>mfw

[AllTheUsernamesRUsed]

I support. These disturbing acts of suppression of free of speech, through underhanded means, must be looked into by the powers that be. Go Potholer54!!!

[littlebier8]

Can we just admit that the DMCA was a bad idea altogether? Why not do something SOCIALLY beneficial and oppose regulation of the internet?

[bbphnix]

fuck those cunts that abuse the DMCA

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

thumbs up for the outraged little birdie :)

[Gerrrry]

@June28July How do you know? They will not tell you when they do so. Also you have zero uploads, so what would you like them to censor? They can censor the comment you just made if 6 people thumb it down, but they won't inform you about this.

[June28July]

@Gerrrry

YT is pro-censorship? I've never been censored by YT.

[tech33012]

149 people have filed a DMCA claim on this video. +1 on this vid