Youtube pulls hundreds of ron paul videos

[almantimes2]

http://www.infowars.com/you-tube-pulls-hundreds-of-ron-paul-videos/


You Tube has expanded its zealous copyright crusade by suspending the popular C-Span Junkie user channel, and in doing so has pulled hundreds of viral Ron Paul videos, which are now completely dead.

The C-Span Junkie user channel, a non-partisan archive of short clips taken from C-Span broadcasts of events in the Congress and the Senate, has been the home of the vast majority of You Tube videos you have seen of Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson and others being confronted in Congress, as well as Ron Paul’s speeches on the House floor. A total of more than 6400 videos in all have been pulled, hundreds of which featured the Texan Congressman.

Whether or not C-Span itself requested that You Tube pull the channel is not known, but it is clearly in the public interest and constitutes fair use to show a clip less than 10 minutes in length of what the people who are supposedly our Representatives are saying in Congress on our behalf.
As we have highlighted before, You Tube arbitrarily suspends accounts based on flimsy copyright claims that aren’t even properly investigated.
We had our own You Tube account suspended following a copyright complaint from a separate party who didn’t even own the copyright on the original material. In addition, the copyright claim was clearly erroneous as it was based on the fact that Alex Jones held up a printed version of an online newspaper story for a few seconds on camera. The channel was eventually reinstated after You Tube received a flood of complaints.

“I don’t know if you can imagine what it’s like to in a moment see 6400 videos gone,” writes the channel owner on the C Span Junkie website, “Figure 6400 hours (easily) poof GONE! I did this for the common good and now it all gone.”

The channel has now been replaced with a new account but it’s unlikely to survive long if the owner dares to post anything of substance.

Truth is no longer acceptable on You Tube as it transforms itself into a pale reflection of Hulu, a site owned and operated by NBC Universal (GE) and Fox Entertainment Group (News Corp), that is to say a joint venture by a corporation owned by a death merchant (GE manufactures attack helicopters and jet engines) and a disinformation platform owned by a notorious neocon, Rupert Murdoch.

In the Hulu-ized universe, there is no room for truth or alternative media — all channels will contain the same schlock and mindless pablum already available on cable and broadcast television.

Videos of members of Congress grilling Bernanke and his cohorts about auditing the Fed and finding out where trillions in missing TARP funds has disappeared to just aren’t part of the sanitized and lobotomized video landscape that You Tube wants to portray.

If you post videos about people eating each other’s vomit or clips of plastic bimbos with their breasts hanging out then you’ll be left alone, but God forbid should anyone try to give the country a window on what’s actually happening in Congress and what their own Representatives are talking about – in that case your thought crimes will immediately be censored and removed.

[AdamT]

This is an outrage!

[disorderlyvision]

:mad:

[dannno]

Sonofa....

[zach]

First they fight you, then they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they censor you?

[itshappening]

how can we complain? this is OUTRAGEOUS, does CSPAN really want this material pulled ? it is in the public interest !

for gods sake, how do we complain to google? I say, lets take action.

[itshappening]

Here we go, email CSPAN and ask them if they asked for the popular 'CSPANjunkie' on youtube channel to be pulled?

viewer@c-span.org

email the press team at google and ask them Why Youtube have pulled the CSPANJunkie website and demand a full investigation:

press@google.com

[specsaregood]

I doubt it was the cspan videos that got them pulled. Despite the channel name, it was in no way limited to cspan videos. If he had limited it to cspan videos i bet he would still be online. Not that I like this development....

[itshappening]

well, can't they send him a message or just destroy the infringing youtubes, why delete the whole damn channel? it's so heavy handed

Send them an email anyway and complain.

[specsaregood]

well, can't they send him a message or just destroy the infringing youtubes, why delete the whole damn channel? it's so heavy handed


You want the heartless purely capitalistic response?

He knew the rules, he uploaded copyrighted materials, he violated the TOS, not us. It is not profitable for our company to dig through his 6k videos to identify all the infringing videos. Since he has shown throw his actions to continually upload infringing material we decided to just close his account.

[itshappening]

with no warning? jeeez...

Silly.

[Arklatex]

What? How does CSPAN profit from their old obscure footage?

[dannno]

Message Sent.

[itshappening]

email CSPAN and ask them if they asked for the popular 'CSPANjunkie' on youtube channel to be pulled?

viewer@c-span.org

email the press team at google and ask them Why Youtube have pulled the CSPANJunkie website and demand a full investigation:

press@google.com

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this channel was a good resource.

[IPSecure]

Makes one wonder just how much power the fed really has...

[mello]

Another possible thing to realize is that this will give Ron Paul haters something to do in
their free time. I can just picture NoLibertarians from the Digg threads scouring Youtube
for any Ron Paul Youtubes to have removed due to "Copyright Violations".

That guy is such a douche.

[Objectivist]

They did the same thing to NakedEmperorNews and he started another page....
http://www.youtube.com/user/NakedEmperorNews1

This is the practice of the new YouTube and there are people on YT that have made commentaries on this subject.
This guy has a few things to say..
http://www.youtube.com/user/therealweeklynews

[acptulsa]

But here's a banner ad at the bottom of the page offering free Newt. So, if you consider a neocon an acceptable substitute (or just want to make up a batch of witches' brew) you've got it made!

Haven't seen much of Ron Paul on the MSM lately, either. Seems his audit the Fed idea caught on and suddenly he's back to being He Who Must Not Be Named. Seems they just wanted to show his face just enough (well between elections) that they can call us silly for calling them out on this...


That guy is such a douche.

Douchebaggery seems to be where the big bucks are these days.

[IPSecure]

A little off topic...

Try Bing, under video search for 'Ron Paul' they show under 'related people':

- President Bush I
- President Bush II
- President Clinton
- President Reagan

See a pattern?

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Ron+Paul

[Bradley in DC]

I don't know anything about this specifically, but if it helps, *I THINK* CSPAN has an agreement with the Congress so that House and Senate floor materials are "public" but that the committee hearings and original programing belong to CSPAN. There was some previous dustup (not affecting Dr. Paul), but that's all I can vaguely remember off hand.

[tron paul]

Dependence on YouTube was a mistake.

We should have had a Liberty Video site up and running many, many months ago.

Now we have no choice.

[Bruno]

Why are other Ron Paul Cspan videos still on youtube?

YouTube - Ron Paul Slams Ben Bernanke... AGAIN | CSPAN | 2-10-2009 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhbKpg7jo-g)

[PaulaGem]

Post videos on a private site in a passworded directory. Give access to trusted forum members and others so bandwidth won't be overloaded.

When a video goes down - have three other people replace it on Youtube by downloading it from the private site.

[Omphfullas Zamboni]

Hi,

Why not just seed torrents of these C-SPAN videos?

Regards,
Omphfullas Zamboni

[Mandrik]

CSPANJunkie had a chunk of vids on his channel that weren't from CSPAN. I'm not saying I agree with the banning of his account, but he had plenty of stuff from mainstream media channels as well. I've been a big fan of his channel for the most part over the past couple of years. It's a shame this happened, but the article is a little misleading. It was predominately CSPAN on his channel, but there was still a big chunk of non-CSPAN vids. These are probably what cause his account to be suspended.

[aravoth]

Not suprised..... at all

[aravoth]

You want the heartless purely capitalistic response?

He knew the rules, he uploaded copyrighted materials, he violated the TOS, not us. It is not profitable for our company to dig through his 6k videos to identify all the infringing videos. Since he has shown throw his actions to continually upload infringing material we decided to just close his account.

it's called fair use

[specsaregood]

it's called fair use

Which is up to interpretation, which takes lawyers; I bet the person that put in the takedown request(s) has better ones. Evidently google didn't want to fight it for a user that doesn't pay them any money. sad but true.

[Eric Arthur Blair]

What other videos have been taken of you tube? Infowars videos disappeared before just in time for one of fatboys last money drives so I don't trust him. A private company is fighting for it's survival here, stop being paranoid. This may not be an anti-Paul thing.

[coyote_sprit]

Might provide some insight.
http://metavid.org/w/index.php/Democratizing_the_Archive:_An_Open_Interface_for_M ediation#Motivations_for_Metavid_and_its_Contested _Legality

[itshappening]

Dependence on YouTube was a mistake.

We should have had a Liberty Video site up and running many, many months ago.

Now we have no choice.

we can't afford the bandwidth, youtube loses millions of dollars :p

[orafi]

isn't cspan PUBLIC television

[Stary Hickory]

Upload them all again!! Never stop!

[Conza88]

You want the heartless purely capitalistic response?

He knew the rules, he uploaded copyrighted materials, he violated the TOS, not us. It is not profitable for our company to dig through his 6k videos to identify all the infringing videos. Since he has shown throw his actions to continually upload infringing material we decided to just close his account.

You want the purely capitalistic response?

Copyright is mercantilist BULLSHIT. It is a monopoly on the use of patterns, and enforced by the state. It is socialism in essence.

If youtube had the balls, they wouldn't be using copyright as an excuse... because it clearly isn't the main reason.

[awake]

Pat your selfs on the back folks, we are having an impact.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Good Find, Thanx!


Might provide some insight.
[/URL][url]http://metavid.org/w/index.php/Democratizing_the_Archive:_An_Open_Interface_for_M ediation#Motivations_for_Metavid_and_its_Contested _Legality (http://metavid.org/w/index.php/Democratizing_the_Archive:_An_Open_Interface_for_M ediation#Motivations_for_Metavid_and_its_Contested _Legality)
I like the techincal information on METADATA used in video and their flow diagram:

http://metavid.org/w/images/5/57/Design_overview.png

[satchelmcqueen]

Post videos on a private site in a passworded directory. Give access to trusted forum members and others so bandwidth won't be overloaded.

When a video goes down - have three other people replace it on Youtube by downloading it from the private site.

excellent ideal. it is up to us to keep these vids SOMEWHERE on the web to always be available to the public just for the sake of history and the truth and how it all went down.

[KramerDSP]

My blog (address in signature) pales in comparison to CSPANJunkie's, but because all my videos are subtitled, they've been uploaded and saved, so they cannot ever be deleted (unless I am mistaken?). I have about 125+ videos up, and the index makes it pretty easy to locate videos of interest. Hope that helps.

[NYgs23]

According to this post on his blog (http://cspanjunkie.org/?p=1911) from six months ago, C-Span wasn't happy about the name "C-Span Junkie" because they thought it suggested an endorsement of his channel.

[Natalie]

I made a ron paul youtube, and it got deleted. I'm not really sure when it got deleted. When I went to my account a couple months ago, I noticed it was gone.

[Feelgood]

Not to sound like a wet blanket, but I did try in vain to get people to use ronpaularchives instead of youtube, for just this reason. Maybe with this going on, I will bring it back online and see if cspan junkie wants to repopulate a site that wont delete, censor oe ban him.

Or others...

[Knightskye]

If he uploaded the clips to YouTube, he must still have the original files, right?

Man, they took all the best videos off of there. Some of them had millions of views.

[AdamT]

This email confirms that you have donated $25.00 USD to cspanjunkiedotorg@gmail.com (cspanjunkiedotorg@gmail.com) using PayPal.

I feel terrible for this guy, threw a donation his way for a little encouragement.

[angelatc]

My blog (address in signature) pales in comparison to CSPANJunkie's, but because all my videos are subtitled, they've been uploaded and saved, so they cannot ever be deleted (unless I am mistaken?). I have about 125+ videos up, and the index makes it pretty easy to locate videos of interest. Hope that helps.

I was thinking about that. I don't know if there's been any precedent, but getting a court to agree that adding subtitles is fair use shouldn't be too hard.

[angelatc]

Here's another thing: how to hide from YouTUbes Content ID System (http://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/youtube-audio-content-id)

[IPSecure]

At the insistence of C-SPAN this website is being shutdown.

C-SPAN says I can use EXACTLY the same video they just don’t want me using their name.

As always, Thank You for your continued support.

[/URL][url]http://cspanjunkie.org/ (http://cspanjunkie.org/)
Wonder if the name Sea-Span-Junkie would be acceptable...

[MsDoodahs]

The powers that be are in total freak out mode. :)

CSPan junkie had so much great stuff that can be used against those incumbent snakes...that's why it had to go.

[Conza88]

Defenders of IP..... running for the hills...

[amonasro]

First they fight you, then they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they censor you?

No.

First they fight you, then they ignore you, then they make you think you're insane, then they turn you against each other, then they ignore you some more, then they pretend you're winning, then when you're not paying attention.... BAM.

This is an outrage. Luckily we're smarter at the internets than they are.

[AbolishTheGovt]

While it sucks for us, Youtube faces a choice between either pulling a few videos to satisfy another media company's copyright claim, or facing a lawsuit from that other media company for not pulling their videos--a lawsuit which could bankrupt them and shut Youtube down entirely. It's evil, yeah, but it's the lesser of two evils.