Really, Obvious, I Mean OBVIOUS, Clip Theft Right Here. Getcher Clip Theft here.

[sisabet]

Okay - so get this: I am totally not fired. At least for now. I am just taking comfort in podcasts - I so totally love podcasts right now. Feel free to pimp your favorites to me as I am in a very receptive mood.

So, I finally check my email today and I get an alert from fahrbotdrusilla that she came across a Buffy/Spike vid to the song "Closer" and halfway through she noticed that the vidder was using stolen clips from one of her vids and one of mine. I think the big giveaway that she is using clips from my vid? The huge, honking "HT" bug in the lower right corner. Chickadee not only stole clips from a vid of mine, she stole clips and edits from my vid "Closer" for her vid "Closer" which on a strictly artistic scale sucks ass. Seriously - waaay too long and all dramatic tension she has built up is spoiled when Buffy cuts her hair in fast motion.

Melodramatic hair-cutting is hard enough to pull off without inducing giggles. Making it all fast-forwardy? Just wrong. Sadly, these are life lessons it doesn't appear the youth of today is getting. I fear for the future. Well, that and don't steal from a fellow fan.

fahrbotdrusilla emailed her about the clip theft and apparently she didn't take edits from us as we took edits from Joss...or something, I think she is pulling out that argument. Also, I think she thinks that I have a penis. Maybe she meant someone else was "he" - like Jesus.

I'd be mad if the clip theft was not so fucking obvious. I mean really - we bugged the vid with the "HT" (for headtilt - I used to have a website at headtilt.com) because of clip theft and now it is just -- wow. I am dying. I think this is cracking me up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmO3Bshy6c0

Comments

[fahrbotdrusilla]

In my head this person is fourteen. *Please* tell me this person is fourteen. Because if there is an actual adult somewhere going 'its not steaaaaaling you stooole alreaaaaady' then I may weep.


I was thinking 15 when I talked to her! She said she'd been vidding FOREVER and KNOWS all these laws (water marking is against copyright laws). Also that she ripped everything except those clips, because they were just what she wanted...

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, they were just what she wanted - how many freaking hours did it take us to get them edited to be just what we wanted?

Thank you for emailing me. She is such a cliched clip thief she is almost quaint.

[fahrbotdrusilla]

how many freaking hours did it take us to get them edited to be just what we wanted?


Exactly!

Thank you for emailing me.

No problem, I love your sense of humor, do you mind if I friend you? You probably wouldn't want to friend me back but I like to ask first before I friend anyone.

[linzeestyle.livejournal.com]

If she could rip the others WHY THE HELL couldn't she rip the ones she stole?

My God. My brain hurts. Hopefully the fact that now five zillion people have seen her video and all gone 'omgwtfpolarbear' will make her stop? Perhaps? Hopefully?

Okay, probably not.

Linzee

[fahrbotdrusilla]

If she could rip the others WHY THE HELL couldn't she rip the ones she stole?


That’s what *I* say whenever a clip thief has given me that line.