Posted 05 November 2012 - 05:41 PM
From time to time, it has been apparent in recent times, videos from popular video hosting sites will be removed for the reason above quoted. Since these are usually posted in all good faith and are, so far as anyone can tell, in the public domain, how can we be expected to tell whether or not there might be a Copyright violation, in order to avoid embarassment or confusion in future?
Just going
"*snip*
Removed because of Copyright violation"
does rather make it sound as if the person posting it was guilty of this offence, when this is rarely actually the case.
Life is a hideous business, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes a thousandfold more hideous.
H. P. Lovecraft.