Over a week now and still no response to my dozen or so queries. In fact, I still haven’t received notification of the account suspension.
The one contact I do have at youtube, grove@youtube.com, has ignored my several emails asking to please be put in touch with anyone who might shed some light on my situation. I even included phone numbers and asked, if he’d prefer, for me to call him.
Nada.
YouTube, as it is part of Google (whom at the time of my suspension I had recently criticized), evidently feels that it is secure enough in its monopoly that users, who provide content, are unimportant — easily replaced.
And of course, this is true, though it is a deplorable business ethic.
Soon, companies like Google — and youtube — will be in control of what gets seen, promoted, and disseminated. Google’s President has already expressed a desire to see blogs of the wrong sort relegated to obscurity — suggesting that Google will push more professional and “proper” discourse in the name of “progress.”
This is a chilling proclamation — one that, now that it has been tethered to my own experience at having been summarily banned and silenced (to the benefit of competitors who, presumably, aided in that cause) — leads me to believe that, coupled with such things as the Fairness Doctrine, the idea that speech can be fought with more speech is viewed by our coming progressive overlords as an unreliable way to enforce a standard narrative.
The ends justify the means. And the means of high profile mass communication is soon to be held by unelected, unresponsive progressives in IT departments practicing petty tyranny at their whim. And best of all, they’ll have the power of the state behind them.
Welcome to the USASR. The line for potatoes is to your left.
It’s gonna be awesome. I get tired of expressing opinions anyway. I’d rather be told what my opinions are.
googles motto is “do no evil”, but what happens when you become evil?
I’m sorry to hear about your continuing predicament; sorry, but not surprised.
The same kind of ideologues are coming to run the new media with as much an iron grip as they controlled the old media.
Between this kind of stuff, the fairness doctrine, electronic brownshirts, and the Obama troof squads it does seem very much like free speech is going the way of the Dodo anymore…
And between the way google operates, favoring their paid clients sites over statistically driven search criteria results, their professed desire to see the wrong type of blogs relegated to obscurity, and their intransigent silence in your specific case, I’m beginning to think that they’re gettin’ paid by one of your competitors in the wrestling video universe!
That, and perhaps some of the furious trolls that came here after your essay on Cashill’s analysis engaged in an electronic brownshirt assault on your you-tube channel…
But that still doesn’t explain why they won’t answer your queries, or any other from folks you know or who read this site; that is, unless they take orders from the O!-stag too…
*shudder* that last line sounded a bit too troofer-ish for my taste!
Although I eschew excess regulation, its too bad there isn’t an FCC type of authority where you could get straight answers about this from…
This aggression shall not stand, man!
My casual googles and searches have tended to indicate that it takes about ten days as a rough minimum following a complaint for Youtube to respond to inquiries about suspensions.
That is awfully slow.
I realize you are operating in a vacuum of information that is completely unfair to you. But have you filed the DMCA counter claim anyway?
There’s always alternative outlets. But this is really quite pitiful.
All the more reason to use alternatives to every function that google provides. competition is just about always good but competitors can’t exist without customers.
fwiw, Jake Shannon from scientificwrestling left a comment on the previous post.
In his comment Jake disavows any involvement in this. His take is that Paul Viele – the guy who apparently produced the Tony C. video clips and is selliing the tape on his World Martial Arts site – has the standing to make the copyright claim on YouTube. There are preview clips at the WMA site.
As to the business practices of YouTube, the ownership of the copyrights to said videos, the coming Stalinist Regime, and such, I’m planning on lying back and thinking of England.
England, circa 1940.
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Gabriel, apparently that motto has gone over the rail from the H.M.S. Google-o-mania.
Jeff, I searched some this morning for cases of unexplained account suspension. It seems Youtube has at times suspended an account flagged for copyright infringement complaints, without upfront warning or explanation, only to eventually restore accounts, usually after a counter-notice is filed.
I suspect copytight infringement claims are the cause of your suspension. The number of the videos, the exclusive devotion of the channel to these catchwrestle videos, probably accounts for removal of the channel entire, the multiple “infractions” the basis for suspension, which Youtube has discretion to excercise according to TOS, even though they don’t list it out as a specific reason.
I strongly urge you to get busy with the takedown counter-claim, if you have not made one anyway, and hope that you have already completed and mailed in a fashion that provides you proof of delivery.
I think I posted Youtube’s counter-clain instructions in one of the other Youtube threads with contact info, etc.
They do not as a rule give anyone the benefit of the doubt on copyright infringement claims, as they lose their safe harbor if they do so. The counter-notice is the key to account reinstatement in cases of claimed copyright infringement.
Bumperstickerist —
Both Tony and Paul have copyright to LAOH. Viele is not involved in any of the other videos — from any of the other DVDs — we had uploaded. At best, he could make a false claim to ownership of a few videos.
But one wonders why he’d do that rather than take action against Tony selling the DVDs for the past 10 years. Or why he’d wish to remove advertising that helps sell a product he claims to own.
Shannon is full of shit.
#2 gabriel
They redefine “evil” as whatever they don’t like.
DMCA counterclaim filed. I hope.
Lots of confusing paperwork.
Potatoes? I though this was the line for toilet paper.
Have you established that there is a DCMA claim?
No. YouTube won’t get back to me. So I noted in the counterclaim form to YouTube that I haven’t been notified about my account suspension, but on the off chance it’s a copyright violation claim, I am filing a counterclaim.
Ah, covering the bases. I see.