TV Museum YouTube channel hosting ancient ads threatened by Sony takedowns
The Museum of Classic Chicago Television has a YouTube channel with many fascinating vintage TV ads, but it's in danger of being eliminated by Markscan, a copyright-strike mill acting on behalf of Sony, the inventor of Betamax tapes. Torrentfreak's Andy Maxwell reports on an automated takedown machine perfectly designed to exploit the ramshackle private copyright enforcement system that YouTube built. — Read the rest
