Wednesday, February 24, 2010 11:55 AM
cstanton
Real Rick Rollers Are Never Gonna Give It Up, Never Gonna Let You Down
One of the worst attempts at content control was made when YouTube removed Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" for copyright infringement.
It is unclear when exactly they had removed the video, but
the Neowin blog discovered it in the wee hours of this morning (Wednesday, 2/24).
The
hilarious 80's music video became popular again when video pranksters
started using it in the middle of other videos that people actually
want to watch.
The video had gotten over 30 MILLION hits and according to
cnet news, one of the co-authors of the song was complaining about how he hadn't made a cent off of the video's renewed popularity.
All in all I think it's just a terribly futile attempt at content control and I'm fairly confident that the jerks just set us all up for a new wave of Rick Roll videos. I mean, real Rick Rollers know the game and they're gonna play it. Don't tell me you're too blind to see.
Filed under: youtube, removed, never gonna give you up, rick roll, copyright infringement, content control