Universal Censors Megaupload Song, Gets Branded a “Rogue Label”

I was curious what the penalties are for issuing a false DMCA takedown request. According to this article (<a href="http://intellectual-property.lawyers.com/blogs/archives/10363-Consequences-of-filing-a-false-DMCA-Takedown-Request.html" rel="nofollow">http://intellectual-property.lawyers.com/blogs/archives/1036...</a>), the penalty is perjury, which is a felony. Does anyone know who would be responsible for bringing charges? Is it something that Megavideo can do, or would it have to be Google, who i assume would not press charges in order to keep their good relationship with Universal?

Not the only abuse of the system. Interscope issued a takedown notice for UK rapper Skepta because they wanted to buy the beat from him. No actual copyright infringement at all...just blatant abuse of the system.<p>link: <a href="http://www.sohh.com/2011/07/interscope_youtube_shakedown_rapper_for.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.sohh.com/2011/07/interscope_youtube_shakedown_rap...</a>

Well at least the anti-SOPA people now have a high profile, clear cut example of why giving these companies more power is a bad idea. These numb nuts very well have just shot themselves in the foot over a silly video.

The real problem here is Youtube who refuses to take counter-notice seriously. It's been many years and they still can't figure out that simple bit "counternotice filed".

Oh this will be fun to watch if you know the history of Kim Schmitz aka Kimble aka Kim Dotcom [1]. He has quite a talent to get into the spotlight if he needs too and it looks like that he is able to legally re-appear in public again.<p>But i would love to know how a trickster like him got this video together. Maybe he is running out of money again and needs some publicity.<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Schmitz</a>

Kim is not one to back down easily, if ever. He loves to win. He placed first in the infamous Gumball 3000 rally twice, and on one occasion faced a certain loss so drove down a packed pedestrian promenade honking everyone out of his way (see around 9 minutes into <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXYuusRIxA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIXYuusRIxA</a> ). What a guy.<p>In <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSUCzJB2Gw#t=6m35s" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boSUCzJB2Gw#t=6m35s</a> you can see him make an almost impossible gap in traffic at high speed, actually clipping another car, and.. he keeps on rolling :-) Not a guy I'd want to be taking on, that's for sure.

The labels going against the artists they pretend to "protect"? I love this. Because if the artists get angry with the labels for stuff like this, it means next time the labels will try to push a law like SOPA "in the name of the artists" - the artists will be there and call them on their BS, and say the labels are representing nobody but themselves. I predict this will become fun to watch.

Isn't the DMCA supposed to punish people who file fraudulent takedown notices?

Well of course UMG prevailed. They're the bigger, legitimate party, and they're who the DMCA was written for. The DMCA was never intended for us to use.

Nice hack. I wonder if they could get a court to issue an injunction against UMG from using its takedown tool until they have established a way to prove to Youtube that they do indeed own the copyrights to material. This would seriously limit their tool's usage :-)

This is being done in our name and with our money. If you don't like it you might want to consider your choices when buying or requesting presents this festive season. Make it an RIAA- and MPAA-free Christmas and tell your friends and family why.

Do we really know if this isn't an over-zealous bot that say big names like P. Diddy and Snoop Dogg and decided that it was time to issue a notice?<p>I still think it's an abuse of the DMCA power to have bots out there mining for things and sending notices without a human ever looking over its shoulder, but there's a difference between negligence and malice.

While I don't agree with what they did here (or SOPA), I have a problem getting on the same side as a site that thinks piracy does no damage to the copyright holder.

controversy aside, what a terrible song. It's like a really poor TV jingle.

Why isn't this video hosted on Megavideo?

Megaupload/megavideo is such a scummy site. It may have it's uses but it's covered in garbage. You can't even watch a video without clicking 2 or 3 ads. It's terrible.<p>I know that Universal is doing something illegal but I guess I just don't mind that much because of how terrible megaupload is.