Terminated with Extreme Prejudice
Jim Groom,
bavatuesdays,
Jul 13, 2012
It was only a matter of time, I guess, but Jim Groom's YouTube account has finally been terminated "due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement." It occurs to me that if it's that easy, we should get together and force Goopgle to take down the Fox News Channel. But I digress, sort of. "Is this who we are giving all of our data over to?" asks Groom. "And while they terminated my account for a reason, it's my theory that the fact has not created within Google (or any other company that controls your data) any sense of obligation. On the contrary, they reserve the right to do whatever they want whenever they want. Scary. I thought I would feel a bit more gutted and enraged at the idea of losing my YouTube account, but in the end it's liberating. Fuck the arbitrary arbiters of copyright, they're no friend of freedom! The bava will abide."
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