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Distress Signal · Advanced Vidder Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 896

I still have no idea what you're talking about.

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Aislynn · Council Member Joined: 03 Feb 2005 Posts: 35782

It was a troll (or some sort of bot thingie) who created an account here and posted a letter to her cat (or something like that) in the Contest thread. The purpose of which was so that the sig link to a gambling site or some such would be posted on the board.

I believe it was deleted but it was immortalized as one of the weirdest troll posts we've had so far...

marcus · Expert Vidder Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 4541

I dunno, the LVI Bot says some pretty weird stuff too, Aislynn...

Like "Description: CC is so cute!!11!!11!1!!!! Running Time: 32 seconds." ...I mean, what was with that? I don't get why we haven't banned him yet.

Now that Disney have found YouTube do you think they'll get rid of more than just Lost vids? They could get rid of anything to do with them...there'd be like two vids left.

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Hobbes · Council Member Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 11211

That's your opinion and well that's just your opinion.

Aw man... this can't be good news

I'm hoping it's just an isolated instance though. If not, we can always just use some other hosting providers (that
s what the Alternate Link system is for

). If they target LVI, they'd kinda have to target all the fansites... since LVI doesn't actually host any videos at all anymore

...
But if it comes to it; fight.

marcus · Expert Vidder Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 4541

How did you even know about that opinion line? Wasn't it on MG's old spam forum?

Youtube's back up and I don't think any Lost vids are gone.

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Hobbes · Council Member Joined: 28 Jan 2005 Posts: 11211

I am well-versed in the many aspects of The Force, Marcus.

Spiral Static · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 404

But, if JJ and Damon don't have any problem with it, is there anything that Disney can do about it?

Or do Disney have more power over it than them?
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IntoTheVoid · Expert Vidder Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 2407

Well Disney/ABC could say 'Were not going to show your episodes anymore'

Or could they? URRGHH why do YouTube have to be suuuuuuuuch a pain the the arse?!
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KajaM · Expert Vidder Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 10438

It's not Youtube's fault because they say in their terms of use that it's not allowed to upload copyrighted material. Not that anybody cares about it or so

The problem is just that Youtube is getting more and more popular and thus also attracts the attention of the big companies. There was even a report about Youtube on the German TV news last night.
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Spiral Static · Intermediate Vidder Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 404

Quote:

Well Disney/ABC could say 'Were not going to show your episodes anymore'

Oh, is ABC like owned by Disney or something? That kinda is a problem then.

I don't have a clue what i'm talking about at all here.

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IntoTheVoid · Expert Vidder Joined: 09 Apr 2006 Posts: 2407

lol well I think they do. I heard it somewhere on LVI. They are such fools though. They should just stick to films.
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MovieGuy · Advanced Vidder Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9022

Technically, the show is Touchstone Television, which is part of Disney. Point is, although ABC is owned by Disney, that doesn't matter. If the show aired on ABC and Warner Bros. owned it, YouTube would say WB.

Distress Signal · Advanced Vidder Joined: 01 Dec 2005 Posts: 896

Maybe it was just one person working for Disney that had too much time on their hands........... and is a pain in the arse.........
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SuperKC · Expert Vidder Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 3667

Fanvids are NOT a new occurance. Generally execs turn a blind eye to stuff like that, including fan art and fan fic, because it DOES help to promote the shows. It's basically free advertisement. If they were to attack sites like LVI or request for all videos hosted at YouTube to be removed, they would alienate a huge chunk of their audience and risk losing ratings. It's just bad business.

Aislynn is right when she mentioned that if we were getting paid to make these, it would be a different story. However since LVI itself doesn't host the vids, I feel it's pretty safe, despite the presence of google's ads.

Fan4Lost · Advanced Vidder Joined: 12 Jan 2006 Posts: 2224

Mine are still there so I think the immenent threat has passed. This will blow over just like everything else. Molly's vid is still there and her's has over 100,000 hits, so I wouldn't worry guys. It may have just been a random thing trying to discourage us.

Though I still say FIGHT THE POWER!! I will gladly protest outside the Disney Studios if anyone is with me. "Hell no, we won't go!!"