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South Park vs Islam II (Viacom's Revenge)

submitted by Zifnab

1 decade 4 years 6 months 2 weeks ago

From YouTube:
On Sunday 25th Apr 2010 I put up the video South Park vs Islam.

Less than 24 hrs later the video had the best part of 100k hits, and Viacom issued a DMCA take down notice, even though the video only contained 10 seconds of South Park footage with no audio.

When it became clear that Viacom had not only filed the DMCA notice, but that it was not an automated take down (else all the mirrors would have been taken down too), but someone at Viacom had actually made the decision to file this DMCA -copyright take down notice (the evasion of their lawyers I talked to spoke volumes!)..... to say that I was angry is an understatement.

I had gone out of my way to do what South Park and Viacom did not have the back bone to do. To call bullshit on those who think that a few death threats will humble free speech in the West.... and then having invited these small time religious losers to do their worst, I got stabbed in the back by Viacom. Yeah pissed really doesn't cover it. Of all the cowardly self-centered parasites... it's difficult to know who is worse, those who want to try to limit free speech by a few death threats, or those who would sell out free speech simply as they think to do otherwise might damage their profit margins.