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galateus ([info]galateus) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2010-05-22 15:17:00
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flamewars, executive-style

Those assholes at Viacom are calling Google assholes. LOLZ at 11.

From the article:

  • Viacom quotes YouTube employee Maryrose Dunton telling an engineer to "'forget about the email alerts stuff' precisely because 'I hate making it easier for these a-holes' - referring to copyright owners - and 'we’re just trying to cover our asses so we don’t get sued.'"
  • Viacom complains that YouTube employees "sneered at rights holders as 'copyright bastards' and 'a-holes.'"
  • Google retorts that Viacom can't complain about this language, and it quotes numerous Viacom execs to make its point. Sample outbursts include, "fuck you, you Google bastards," "bastards at Google are harassing me," and the eloquent "fuck those mother fuckers."
  • A Viacom VP even complained about the "fucking assholes" at YouTube—because the company "enforced its repeat-infringer policy concerning a Viacom marketing account that had received multiple take-down notices from Viacom's legal department." The lulz, they are here in spades.
  • Viacom top brass wrote e-mails with more exclamation points than my niece would even consider decent. They also had what Google calls an "obsession" with buying YouTube.
  • Case in point: "I WANT TO OWN YOUTUBE. I think it's critical, and if it goes to a competitor.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That was from MTV Networks head Judy McGrath.
  • Viacom CEO Tom Freston wrote, "If we get UTube… I wanna run it." McGrath responded, "You'll have to kill me to get to it first."

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[info]greenling
2010-05-22 09:32 pm UTC (link)
A Viacom VP even complained about the "fucking assholes" at YouTube—because the company "enforced its repeat-infringer policy concerning a Viacom marketing account that had received multiple take-down notices from Viacom's legal department." The lulz, they are here in spades.


...So wait. Their legal department sent out multiple C&Ds to one of those official channels? And they're angry because Google isn't inserting exceptions into their site policy for gross stupidity on the part of large corporations?

The rest of it's hilarious, but that sort of thing explains why they're being called assholes, y'know?

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[info]galateus
2010-05-22 10:10 pm UTC (link)
Content-based megacorps are always the specialest snowflakes in the blizzard of the Internet.

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[info]platedlizard
2010-05-22 10:23 pm UTC (link)
It's a case of the left hand having no fucking clue as to what the right hand was doing.

As I understand it, the marketing teams were trying to make the Viacom videos go viral. Now, people are savy, so if the channel had Viacom's official seal of approval posted for all to see they wouldn't have gotten the attention they wanted. So the marketing team were sending out people to internet cafes to set up dummy account to post videos. Unfortunately (or fortunately for us lovers of lulz) they didn't see fit to inform the lawyers WTF they were doing and which channels were legit. So they got the take-down notices.

And then the VP gets made at Youtube for doing what Viacom's lawyers ask them to do. And I laugh and laugh and laugh.

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(no subject) - [info]theelusiven, 2010-05-22 11:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]issendai, 2010-05-22 11:10 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2010-05-23 11:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2010-05-22 11:14 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2010-05-23 04:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2010-05-23 05:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]tachikoma01, 2010-05-28 09:05 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2010-05-28 09:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2010-06-02 03:48 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]caito, 2010-05-23 05:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]finchbird, 2010-05-23 04:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kitt_in_socks, 2010-05-23 05:57 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]tez, 2010-05-23 07:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]risha, 2010-05-23 07:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sneer, 2010-05-23 08:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dragonfangirl, 2010-05-23 11:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2010-05-24 01:30 am UTC
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[info]overlord_mordax
2010-05-22 09:43 pm UTC (link)
This is...beautiful!

And still months until my brithday!

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[info]franzen
2010-05-23 03:58 am UTC (link)
Today is mine! This is the perfect end to a wonderful day.

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[info]sarracenia
2010-05-22 10:07 pm UTC (link)
My favorite part is the part where they sent DMCA notifications for their own marketing promotions. Way to go, dudes!

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[info]puipui
2010-05-22 11:15 pm UTC (link)
That's my favorite part, too! I just cannot get over how beautiful that is. I will LOL forever over that.

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[info]blue_penguin
2010-05-23 04:35 am UTC (link)
Isn't that everyone's favorite part? Because seriously, that's just beautiful.

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(no subject) - [info]cmdr_zoom, 2010-05-24 02:38 pm UTC

[info]ahiru
2010-05-23 02:08 am UTC (link)
A Viacom VP even complained about the "fucking assholes" at YouTube—because the company "enforced its repeat-infringer policy concerning a Viacom marketing account that had received multiple take-down notices from Viacom's legal department."

Oh, that is beautiful. "Those bastards at YouTube, taking down our videos...that our legal department repeatedly asked them to take down...how dare they enforce their policy! This is ridiculous!"

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[info]ardath_rekha
2010-05-23 02:32 am UTC (link)
A Viacom VP even complained about the "fucking assholes" at YouTube—because the company "enforced its repeat-infringer policy concerning a Viacom marketing account that had received multiple take-down notices from Viacom's legal department." The lulz, they are here in spades.

Joining everybody else in LOLing hard over this. Not just because Viacom couldn't talk to itself well enough to stop that from happening, but that they're then blaming the outside entity that got caught in the middle of their asshaberdashery.

I'd love to know how it is that they expect YouTube to take their copyright claims seriously when apparently they don't.

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[info]librarianmouse
2010-05-23 04:36 am UTC (link)
Just chiming in to say that "asshaberdashery is a super-fun word.

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2010-05-23 03:37 am UTC (link)
I WANT TO OWN YOUTUBE.

...Okay, then! Good to know!

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[info]blue_penguin
2010-05-23 04:38 am UTC (link)
I WANT TO OWN YOUTUBE.

And a pony. Please please please with a cherry on top?

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[info]yattara
2010-05-23 03:04 pm UTC (link)
How will the pony get the cherry when it's on his back?

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(no subject) - [info]inalasahl, 2010-06-01 09:13 pm UTC

[info]out_bottle
2010-05-23 03:44 pm UTC (link)
You have to add more !!!!!!

"And a pony!!!!!!"

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[info]caito
2010-05-23 06:00 am UTC (link)
This has made me laugh HUGELY.

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[info]seca
2010-05-23 06:38 am UTC (link)
Just have to say this is pretty awesome wank to end my birthday on. ♥

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[info]tez
2010-05-23 07:06 am UTC (link)
This was EXACTLY what I needed after a day spent buried in state insurance regulations.

Proof positive that fandom might be fucking funny, but real-life idiocy on this scale is HILARIOUS.

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[info]jkefka
2010-05-23 04:59 pm UTC (link)
It's like an eighth-grade recess with hundreds of millions of dollars on the line.

*popcorn*
*whiskey*
*comfy chair*

Let's do this.

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(no subject) - [info]darksumomo, 2010-05-24 02:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]felinephoenix, 2010-05-26 02:48 am UTC

[info]dragonfangirl
2010-05-23 11:43 pm UTC (link)
It's like a cage match between two roosters, only the cage is THE INTERNET.

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[info]demonbean
2010-05-24 01:12 am UTC (link)
Dear Viacom,

Until I receive notice to the contrary, I will assume that any and all free distribution of Viacom-brand media is perpetrated and sanctioned by your marketing department.

Thanks!

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[info]meagenimage
2010-05-24 11:44 am UTC (link)
Exclamation marks make a sentence more important!!!!!!!!!!!!

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(no subject) - [info]spawn_of_kong, 2010-05-24 01:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]felinephoenix, 2010-05-26 02:46 am UTC

[info]gmth
2010-05-24 02:31 pm UTC (link)
This is beautiful, and I'm not just saying that because Viacom's repeated DMCA notices for vids I had posted on YouTube are what got my YouTube account yanked last year.

Okay, maybe I am...

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[info]silmaril
2010-05-24 03:14 pm UTC (link)
# They also had what Google calls an "obsession" with buying YouTube.
# Case in point: "I WANT TO OWN YOUTUBE. I think it's critical, and if it goes to a competitor.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" That was from MTV Networks head Judy McGrath.

...ha. Ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

I do believe the correct etiquette of the situiation does require the well-thought-out and carefully elucidated response "CRY MOAR, N00BS" from Google.

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[info]nightwithmoon
2010-05-27 05:18 pm UTC (link)
A Viacom VP even complained about the "fucking assholes" at YouTube—because the company "enforced its repeat-infringer policy concerning a Viacom marketing account that had received multiple take-down notices from Viacom's legal department.

Aww, poor Viacom. Is mean old YouTube picking on you by fulfilling their legal obligations? Here, have a failcookie. It should go really well with all that whine.

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