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CBS Takes Down CBS Video On CBS Website

Yes, copyright can be a tricky thing.

Apparently the take-down team at the major US television network CBS have taken drastic measures to take infringing videos offline, including a video on the CBS website.

WTF? … check.

FAIL? … check.

cbs fail

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  • Anon

    Lulz

  • DocGerbil100

    All I can do is ROFL at this act of unbounded stupidity! I wonder how much they paid their legal department for the takedown request? :D

  • DocGerbil100

    All I can do is ROFL at this act of unbounded stupidity! I wonder how much they paid their legal department for the takedown request? :D

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  • Phobophobia

    Be waned! apparently not even CBS can escape the wrath of CBS!!!

  • notLOL

    LOL at TorrentFreak. The video was taken down from YouTube, it was embedded into the article, The only one who probably made a mistake is the writer of the article (well, he might not known that it will be taken down by a different team who takes down videos from YouTube, which can be understood).

    • Izkata

      Youtube’s policy allows different actions when an infringing video is matched. One of which is to notify those that make the claim, and then the claim-ers can choose on a case-by-case basis whether or not to leave it up on Youtube.

      So yes, someone at CNN took down their own video.

  • http://disqus.com/ Rob8urcakes

    Fecken morons
    *slaps face

  • Ninja

    Stupidity has reached new levels today. And I rofl’d.

  • wildfire

    just goes to show you how stupid they are as the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand does and when news get blocked and they where just condeming the goverment in egypt for turnning off the internet, well folks if they could do it here your internet would be shut off till they had some kind of software or heck lets just bring it out and say what is in one of their emails to each other as they want to know what you are doing and would love to see you as you watch a show and judge your reactions, and to see if and what you down load and really see what you upload.
    its not that they don’t like the idea of the songs or movies on thier but at thier terms and prices and they admit that to each other, they just know they cant control it, or regulate it yet that is why the lying false reports and i am waiting because if they do get lucky and get me i have it fixed where all of this will wind up on the internet and in court defense, stupid people as if you can’t fix your doors animals get out, so lets see what happens.

  • wildfire

    just goes to show you how stupid they are as the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand does and when news get blocked and they where just condeming the goverment in egypt for turnning off the internet, well folks if they could do it here your internet would be shut off till they had some kind of software or heck lets just bring it out and say what is in one of their emails to each other as they want to know what you are doing and would love to see you as you watch a show and judge your reactions, and to see if and what you down load and really see what you upload.
    its not that they don’t like the idea of the songs or movies on thier but at thier terms and prices and they admit that to each other, they just know they cant control it, or regulate it yet that is why the lying false reports and i am waiting because if they do get lucky and get me i have it fixed where all of this will wind up on the internet and in court defense, stupid people as if you can’t fix your doors animals get out, so lets see what happens.

  • Elnlre

    what retards lol

  • Elnlre

    what retards lol

  • Dan6336

    Because that footage on that reporter is now a personal medical issue that most people don’t really need to see.
    Still amusing how they did the vid pull.

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  • townie2

    i wonder if they will sue themselves for copyright infringement :)

  • Sony Dvdr

    CBS = Cannot Be Serious

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