My HiME, Your Tube
Not that I particularly like YouTube to begin with. First, the name is weird, and I still don't understand how it relates to video sharing, despite my best attempts. Second: FLV, FLV, FLV. I understand that it was done for accessibility, but couldn't they at least provide a download link to the original video, unaltered by compression artifacts?
Today, I received a DMCA e-mail from YouTube, notifying me that they deleted a Mai-HiME video excerpt. No big deal, right? I needed it to provide a reference, and it has outlived its usefulness.
What's strange is the phrasing.
First, the page for the deleted video says: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Sunrise, Inc." Now, I already imagine Sunrise, Inc. sitting day and night in front of their office computers, reloading the YouTube recent uploads list to spot copyright violations. Or maybe one of them was a Wikimoon visitor and spotted the link there on a talk page. But it doesn't matter.
Second, if I was a site admin deleting copyright violations, the first thing I would do, after deleting a video, would be going to the user's profile and deleting any other copyright violations present there. This was not the case. All the other videos were left intact, including Sailor Moon stock footage (although, judging by its abundance on YouTube, they probably don't consider it copyrightable), and even the other Mai-HiME video, uploaded shortly after this one.
My stance is, if you're self-proclaimed zealous protectors of authors' rights, you should, you know, be zealous. And this does not mean selectively deleting 1% of copyright violations just to prove you can — or, possibly, to scare people. The latter is known as "pulling a Microsoft", and is hardly an effective law enforcement tactic — all it achieves is making people despise you for double standards.
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