Was reading the Daily Mail (to find out which people they hate today) and came across this article about Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Voldermort’s nose job very likely provided by MPC). Very amused to find that the DM had embedded a YouTube video of the HP:DH trailer which recently aired on MTV, only for Viacom (MTV’s owners), to have submitted a take-down request and the video removed.
Viacom demanding YouTube remove a video for a film trailer of a film that Viacom doesn’t even have any rights to? I’m sure Warner Bros. will be overjoyed with that. I know the trailer comes from an MTV program but even so, this demonstrates how mad the film industry has gone.
I always thought that film companies and music labels WANTED to share promotional items with people. It is, after all, a way of getting people interested in buying or paying to watch whatever the hell it is they’re trying to promote. Viacom has done Warners a huge disfavour, and I hope Warners will appropriately bitchslap Viacom because of it.
