Channel 4 verus Google and YouTube
How often do you see this message on youtube when looking for channel 4 content:
This video contains content from Channel 4, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
Just try this search you see the top results, click one if you’re in the UK and You Tube should show you the copyright message. Now Google owns YouTube, most readers here know that but I have a new following at the moment ( did I tell you I’m going to be on SkyNews lol ) and just want to make that clear, so why the hell does Google YouTube block me when Google.com will quite happily show me the video in their Cache.
So what does Cache mean? This is the content that Google stores on it own servers, normally your content if you have a website, and to stop Google indexing that content you have to use robots.txt file to block Google’s spiders. Alot of newspapers actually block Google from caching their sites so they still have editorial control.
So the big question is why would Google honour a take down request on Youtube but still serve copyrighted content from it’s cache ?
Dave
Matt 1181 days ago
http://www.onetakemedia.netMaybe they forgot?
reviewmylife 1181 days ago
http://www.reviewmylife.co.uk/blog/They probably just didn’t think about it. I’m guessing the team who manages the Google cache is unrelated to the team who manage YouTube.
I tried the same search as you and now when you click on the cache link I get a ‘An error has occured, please try again later’ message.
Need More Visitors 1181 days ago
http://getsometraffic.net/getsometrafficYeah They might have forgotten or the team which is managing this all have ignored it .When I did this I also found same thing Please Try again later.
Amelia Vargo 1181 days ago
I think reviewmylife (is that really their name? – experimental parents!) has a point – probably the folks in charge of the cache are unaware that channel 4 films are restricted in this country on youtube. Bet they know now though… Or soon will. Thanks….
Dave 1181 days ago
http://www.djb31st.co.ukIsn’t it more of a problem with the way the youtube site has been scripted?
Surely the flash player should detect your geo location rather than the page feeding a variable to it?
Would appear that google don’t REALLY want to block content based on geographic locations.
Julian Young 1176 days ago
http://www.julian-young.comChannel 4 really are making a bit of a mess with their sloppy copyright enforcement. A friend included a 3 second snippet from a c4 program and the whole video got blocked from the UK, very annoying.