By Thilak ⋅ April 16, 2007

YouTube Obeys Fake Request by a 15 year old

A 15 year old boy from Perth, Australia signed a fake takedown notice on behalf of Australian Broadcasting Corporation and requested YouTube to remove all clips featuring “The Chaser’s War on Everything”. YouTube fell for the prank and not only delete those videos, but warned all uploaders saying their account would be deleted if they persisted.

ABC actually encourages users to spread Chaser’s clips, as the comedy series promotes channel’s content. I agree that YouTube seriously hate copyright infringed videos, but incidents like these are quite shameful for YouTube. YouTube better be careful from now on.

ABC lawyers have contacted the boy for impersonating an ABC employee and he is apologizing for his mischief.

Via Mashable

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Discussion

Comments for “YouTube Obeys Fake Request by a 15 year old”

  • Ben
    LOL ...! You tube got a present from 15 year old
    A new Aril Fool's day Gift for You Tube ;)
  • This is very funny ... Hahahah!!
  • Oh the chaser is so FUNNY!
    they even went to my school and were kicked out by the Headmaster. :P
  • LOL @ Perth !! But he did the right job in a wrong way and guess wat ? he's now world famous, at least on internet for few days. Not a bad deal !!
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