Many of us were upset yesterday when we
went to YouTube for tutorials & reviews on Microsoft Windows only
to find that they had been deleted. We just started at the television
icon and could not believe our eyes when we saw the explanation
stating “this video is no longer available due to copyright claims
by Microsoft Corporation”. We were scratched our head trying to
figure out just what the violations could possibly be that would make
them force YouTube to take them down.
The people that made those tutorial &
review videos were just as confused and upset when they checked their
email and found the deletion notice. Technology analysis Bruce Baylor
was one the people that received one of the notices telling him that
his Windows 8 update 1 review had been removed from his FrugalTech
channel on the site.
“It
is my opinion that because I was very, very negative in the video
about Windows 8, that it was taken down,” Bruce Naylor said. “It
really pissed off somebody. They are looking for an excuse to take
that video down.”
Another perso that
was confused by the deletion of his video was Scott Hanselman, a
Microsoft employee, when he received the same e-mail that his Windows
8.1 tutorial had been removed. After seeing the notice he went on his
twitter account and sent out a tweet
show his frustration.
This morning
Redmond-based Microsoft reached out to Google, who owns YouTube, to
clear up the matter. They explained that the mean of their concern
was some of the comments that had embedded codes in them. It was
those comments they were ask the video streaming service to delete
and not the videos. Since clearing up the problem YouTube restored
all of the videos minus the comments that caused the uproar in the
beginning.
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