EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies

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EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies 294

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @09:39PM from the end-is-near dept.

Locke2005 writes "In what promises to be one of the quickest threads to become Godwin'ed, YouTube has pulled scores of parodies of the 'Hitler Finds Out' scene from the movie The Downfall. Ironically, I had never heard of this movie before this — and now I want to watch it." Here is the EFF complaint. David Weinberger has posted some details on Google's Content Identification tool, which is being used in the shotgun takedowns.

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Ich bin Hitler (Score:5, Funny)

by Looce ( 1062620 ) * writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @09:40PM (#31917790) Journal

und ich bin erste!
(first post, thread is now godwinned)

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Uh-oh!! (Score:5, Funny)

by Pike ( 52876 ) writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @09:43PM (#31917818) Journal

Wait till Hitler finds out about this!!! woooooohhh boy!!

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Re:Such a wordsmith! (Score:3, Funny)

by Cryacin ( 657549 ) writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @10:07PM (#31917966)

Identifacition?

Really?
What? That's a perfectly cromulent word that embiggens us all.

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Re:Downfall is a really good movie (Score:5, Funny)

by VTI9600 ( 1143169 ) writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @10:17PM (#31918018)

Yeah! I never would have heard about the movie and subsequently downloaded it from The Pirate Bay if not for the Youtube parodies too!

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Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! (Score:5, Funny)

by DurendalMac ( 736637 ) writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @10:18PM (#31918026)

First they came for the Youtube videos, but I didn't speak up because I don't have any Youtube videos...

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Re:Uh-oh!! (Score:5, Funny)

by nine-times ( 778537 ) writes: <nine.times@gmail.com> on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @10:21PM (#31918050) Homepage

Yeah, he's pretty pissed [youtube.com].

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Glad they got on that before anybody saw them.. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @10:28PM (#31918086)

...next up, the creators of Zero Wing request YouTube take down the All Your Base videos.

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Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! (Score:2, Funny)

by The Redster! ( 874352 ) writes: on Tuesday April 20, 2010 @11:20PM (#31918338)

Then they came for the ISP's, but I did not speak up because

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Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! (Score:2, Funny)

by $RANDOMLUSER ( 804576 ) writes: on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @12:23AM (#31918680)

See, this is just how it started in Nazi Germany, with the removal of youtube videos!

No, that was "JewTube".

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This comes at a very bad time (Score:2, Funny)

by gyrogeerloose ( 849181 ) writes: on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @12:47AM (#31918792) Journal

Because a parody video of Hitler as Steve Jobs discovering the loss of the iPhone 4G prototype just must be made.

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Re:Ich bin Hitler (Score:5, Funny)

by jez9999 ( 618189 ) writes: on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @04:21AM (#31919694) Homepage Journal

Apparently all of those videos on that page have been pulled. Including the pure white noise one. I wonder how they justify that one.
Germany considers it too racist. There should have been a representative mix of white and black noise.

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Oh yeah.. (Score:2, Funny)

by The Creator ( 4611 ) writes: on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @04:51AM (#31919806) Homepage Journal

The man playing Hitler in that movie does an amazing job.
Then how come he still loses?

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Re:Downfall is a really good movie (Score:5, Funny)

by metacell ( 523607 ) writes: on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @07:22AM (#31920662)

I watched different scenes on Youtube.
Pretty strange movie, though. The actors do the same things over and over, and only the subtitling is different?!

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EFF Assails YouTube For Removing "Downfall" Parodies

Ich bin Hitler (Score:5, Funny)

Uh-oh!! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Such a wordsmith! (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Downfall is a really good movie (Score:5, Funny)

Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Uh-oh!! (Score:5, Funny)

Glad they got on that before anybody saw them.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! (Score:2, Funny)

Re:JUST LIKE THE NAZIS! (Score:2, Funny)

This comes at a very bad time (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Ich bin Hitler (Score:5, Funny)

Oh yeah.. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Downfall is a really good movie (Score:5, Funny)

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