Removal of YouTube Content

Rex Sorgatz writes:

<<Although I’m certainly not the only one who has been aggravated by the increasing appearance of the “This video is no longer available” message from YouTube, I didn’t know how to quantify my frustration. So I decided to do a little test... do you remember Pitchfork’s 100 Awesome Music Videos post from last summer? There was a brief moment where these types of posts opened our eyes to the potential of a new form of curatorial criticism of video, with a mashup of moving illustrations that were controlled by users. Suddenly, you could image whole new ways to conceive of writing about the history of visual culture. Now, just months later, that vision has been practically erased, as over half of the clips from the above post have been removed from YouTube – to be exact, 54 of 100 are gone (I counted).>>

Rex suspects that these removals don’t help anyone involved, not the original artists, nor the label, or the fans.

[Via Waxy.]

[By Philipp Lenssen | Original post | Comments]

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