Apple Issues Takedown Order for Popular YouTube Channel That Archived WWDC Keynotes

[siri_3005]

We live in a society where archiving things are bad but it's ok to make clickbait content that's misleading! Seriously, what's been happening at Apple for the last few months with the stupid decisions like putting ads on the App Store?

 

[contacos]

Thats ridiculous, he was just archiving them and preserving history ffs…

It’s even dumber than some of those US Networks still region locking PROMO Trailers of their upcoming tv shows on YouTube in 2022. god forbid I see a trailer from the other side of the world

 

[Kaikidan]

But if the youtuber is going to upload all the video files to Internet Archive wont the same thing happen to them? because the WWDC keynotes are the exclusive property of Apple and are thus not free to do as one wishes.

Internet archive is kinda weird, you can find almost anything there if it's old enough, there was the time nintendo issued DMCAs to roms sites, most of them gonne dark, still, you can find high quality complete no-intro rom sets on there for anything imaginable.

 

[Radeon85]

In what way does this hurt Apple, what an absolute dick move from them 😡

 

[darngooddesign]

In what way does this hurt Apple, what an absolute dick move from them 😡

Occam's Razor says that it was a legal firm trying bill extra hours instead of Apple who literally hasn't done anything about it since the channel went up.

The down-side to copyright law is that unless Apple consistently acts on copyright violations they don't care about; it sets a legal precedent which makes it harder for them too act on violations they do care about.

 

[SoldOnApple]

Apple should host all these themselves. It doesn't really fit apple.com but they could all be hosted in the Apple TV app and everyone could also access it still on tv.apple.com. Or maybe Apple could start their own YouTube and let people access it on the Apple Tube app or on tube.apple.com. There's clearly a lot of demand to view these old keynotes so the official "history of apple" channel or whatever will attract millions of views alone over the years.

 

[JosephAW]

The second best Keynote was the introduction of the PowerMac G3 and the demo of Halo by Bungie.😛
What are they going to do? Deny that the G5 ever existed? Denied that the Intel architecture was only for 20 years as Steve said? Deny the introduction of the Macintosh speaking on a stage?

They need to release all the keynotes in high-quality format, some of them I had to watch using dialup.

 

[Babygotfont]

you shall not pass

 

[elptdbi3lYI]

Apple should archive these videos themselves, sometimes I bookmark some wwdc video to visit later and sometimes I get redirected to `this page doesn't exist anymore`, when I do visit it later, for videos not even 3 years old, when these videos are the only documentation they write it's not a good developer experience.

 

[abowlby]

[insert ad here] Apple is losing the plot lately. [insert ad here].

 

[randolorian]

Apple probably has plans to monetize those videos by making them exclusively available in the Developer app and injecting them with ads.

 

[MauiPa]

WHAT? You can’t use people’s copyrighted material on your own web sites without permission? This can’t be right. Someone check the copyright laws right now, we need an answer. I want to speak to the manager!

Ok that might have been over the top, but funny

Seriously, I can see the value of his service of providing the WWDC materials(which is also available on Apple, Btw) but perhaps he should have secured permission. I mean who would not take free publicity?

 

[I7guy]

Occam's Razor says that it was a legal firm trying bill extra hours instead of Apple who literally hasn't done anything about it since the channel went up.

The down-side to copyright law is that unless Apple consistently acts on copyright violations they don't care about; it sets a legal precedent which makes it harder for them too act on violations they do care about.

Occam’s razor says apple wants these to be history and not internet memes.

 

[shakerstevens]

Apple are obviously worried you might look back at an old clip from the days when they had true innovation instead of revisiting the same iphone tiny bit by bit each year and its only recent new product sector being the iCloth.

 

[SnappleRumors]

A bit late since this was reported on a different site last week...

EDIT: Apple kills long-time event archive on YouTube

Dislikes/Disagree? Really?

As I understand it, MacRumors is merely an amalgamation of news much like Drudge. In other words the MR staff gathers, rewords, and posts articles from various news sources. So news being reported by journalists on Friday might not reach the MR site until Monday.

 

[abowlby]

We live in a society where archiving things are bad but it's ok to make clickbait content that's misleading! Seriously, what's been happening at Apple for the last few months with the stupid decisions like putting ads on the App Store?

Control the information, control everything. Why do you think the Elite Blue Checks are big mad right now? Because they don’t want to lose the privilege of being “better” than everyone else but also rely on Twitter for 50% of their “news.” Lol. Lmao, even.

 

[klasma]

The down-side to copyright law is that unless Apple consistently acts on copyright violations they don't care about; it sets a legal precedent which makes it harder for them too act on violations they do care about.

That's not true for copyright, only for trademark infringement.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Apple making a move against their fans. Sounds about right these days.

 

[steve09090]

WHAT? You can’t use people’s copyrighted material on your own web sites without permission? This can’t be right. Someone check the copyright laws right now, we need an answer. I want to speak to the manager!

Ok that might have been over the top, but funny

Seriously, I can see the value of his service of providing the WWDC materials(which is also available on Apple, Btw) but perhaps he should have secured permission. I mean who would not take free publicity?

Exactly. It’s Apples intellectual property. I see this as no different to keeping copies of Brilliant, Lynda Training, Pimsleur /Babel.

 

[alpi123]

What possible reason does Apple have to do this? Seems a bit petty if you ask me and not a good look for the company.

Maybe the channel was monetized?

Also, Apple has hidden most of their keynotes in their own channel as well.

 

[alpi123]

but perhaps he should have secured permission.

"Just ask Apple for permission, it's that easy!"

 

[AppleTO]

If Apple were to add all the old keynotes to their podcast channel I would re-watch them all.

The ones in these YouTube channels were a recorded internet stream. Better than nothing, but some were pretty rough. I’d love to see the high quality originals.

 

[4odomi]

Look I understand the copyright issues and that Apple is probably concerned regarding the integrity of the Apple brand.

But I can't help feel that their actions are a little over the top sometimes?

In other words what you're saying copy rights shouldn't matter! There's obviously a reason, which this guy hasn't come clean with

 

[alien3dx]

Apple should archive these videos themselves, sometimes I bookmark some wwdc video to visit later and sometimes I get redirected to `this page doesn't exist anymore`, when I do visit it later, for videos not even 3 years old, when these videos are the only documentation they write it's not a good developer experience.

Today developer get bad documentation everywhere . The most usefull is php . Other just pull out generated commented code.

i would said the trend soo bad so developer need to dig all source code for maintenance purpose .

** fake code clean is not really code clean these day.

 

[bobtem]

Takedown Orders? Did you just make that up MR?