Wed, Jan. 7th, 2009, 11:42 pm
I'm a pirate!

Got an email from the fine, fine folks at youtube tonight whinging about the blatant audio piracy in one of my youtube videos. I took some video of a day trip [info]dbaker and I took from Tokyo to Hiroshima and put together a little video using the love theme from st. elmo's fire (at deebses request) and uploaded it to youtube. The video's been online for years. I wonder if they are automatically detecting violations now or if some human reported the video. It doesn't have very many views.



Dear MacNugget,

Video Disabled

A copyright owner has claimed it owns some or all of the audio content in your video Train ride from Tokyo to Hiroshima. The audio content identified in your video is Love Theme From St. Elmo's Fire by David Foster. We regret to inform you that your video has been blocked from playback due to a music rights issue.

Replace Your Audio with AudioSwap

Don't worry, we have plenty of music available for your use. Please visit our AudioSwap library to learn how you can easily replace the audio in your video with any track from our growing library of fully licensed songs.

Other Options

If you think there's been a mistake, or you have other questions, please visit the Copyright Notice page in your account.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Content Identification Team


What's sort of interesting is YouTube's "audioswap" technology. It let me pick an alternative song to replace the audio in the video from a categorized list of freely-available music. They all sounded sort of bland and generic, but it's a much better alternative to just pulling the video offline entirely:


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