Stolen Content - Unfortunate Consequence of the Web and Video Sharing

The issue of stolen content has come up a LOT in the last few weeks, and the biggest issue is sites like Break.com and Liveleak allowing it!.

DCMA reports (copyright claims) are next to useless, and very time consuming to file and finish. provided the person who stole your video does not counterclaim and keep the form bouncing from one side to the other.

Leokimvideo http://www.youtube.com/leokimvideo has had a issue going on for some time where a fellow youtuber stole part of one of his videos and is profiting from it. the theif has has been filing counterclaims every time and youtube refuses to punish him.

My video on Break (notice in every instance they cropped the vid down a bit and encoded it in lower quality)
http://www.break.com/index/washing-machine-gets-obliterated-2292985

Live Leak
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fb4_1327632405

and youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIgsO4MuWY

But as they say, Once its on the web, It never really goes away!

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• theft

[tbmiquelin]

Fcksakes dude youtube is free. Chill the fck down and learn how to put a fckin water mark.

[Aussie50]

@tbmiquelin oh, so that means everything thats uploaded is free to pirate and profit from? yer right!.

if you make something its your property unless you give somebody else written permission to use it!

I have every right to want my content removed from other channels/sites

[rasz]

@Aussie50

Just delete your channel if it bothers you so much

[Aussie50]

@rasz oh yeh, just fly the flag of surrender :p. like hell I will give up the war.

[coondogtheman1234]

Are the ppl who are stealing videos simply just embedding them in their websites or actually downloading the FLV/MP4 files and reuploading that to their sites? I've seen lots of websites that link to my videos and they are embedded and not stolen and reuploaded. I agree you should watermark your vids. I'm thinking of doing that to my videos but I don't know how to do it in movie maker but I could just do what Rodalco does.

[Aussie50]

@coondogtheman1234 I don't mind embedding, thats how they usually go viral

but a lot of people are uploading them to their own channel or another site, which is stealing

[B1r6m4n]

Guys - watermark your videos! And not just in the corner... Write it out on the washing machine, etc like RODALCO often does!

[THO1996MAS]

A burned out electric motor is NOT a feline.. i died when he said that

[FeCr3]

Yeh,thats the fucked up side,with fucked up peoples of the internet :-(( Yes,best are a watermark in every video that you upload.So that everyone can see,from were it's stolen from!

I have not much viewers on my video's as you,but i had seen some of MY video's on other websites too :-((

[PINKBOY1006]

the youtube one the guy that upload it, it is his only video

[KrankieV2]

i'm sick of the bullshit on youtube lately. I'm done with it!

[Films4You]

I log of the so called view counts are paid for and are therefor not real.

Th problem with YT is that they don't appear to care they list these higher.

As you say they do not care if the account gets closed.

[theirisheditor]

Try embedding a line something like: "Help me catch video thieves: If this video does not say 'Uploaded by Aussie50' below the Like button, please FLAG this video as spam! Thank you." E.g. display this line for ~30 seconds near the top/bottom, especially in any further destruction videos. If every 50th viewer notices the line and sees "Uploaded by (xxxx)" and flags the copy, it'll not last long.

[PhotonicinductionArc]

Oh dear, you have seen the light, I bet you will get fed up with you tube with a year, especially if you find a nice lady.