Hell hath no fury like a celebrity gossip scorned. Celeb-blogger Perez Hilton is through with YouTube. “Fuck you, YouTube. Fuck you,” he says in a farewell video posted—where else?— on YouTube.
Hilton, who was one of the original partners selected to share ad revenues with the site (a program that was recently opened up) found his account temporarily shut down on Monday for purported copyright violations. YouTube had received a takedown notice related to Liza Minnelli concert footage he had included in a video. It was the third takedown notice that Hilton’s videos had received. However, Hilton says he had permission to post the video from the person who shot it. YouTube quickly reinstated his account.
Nevertheless, Hilton expressed anger at YouTube for sending him a standard, generic e-mail informing him of his account’s violation and temporary shutdown. Don’t they know who he is? They should, his YouTube videos generate millions of views, according to him. Doesn’t he rate at least a phone call? In his farewell video, Hilton tells his fans he probably won’t be posting any more videos to YouTube and that neither should they. Dis.
But here’s the funny part. The other two takedown notices had come from Viacom, which produces Hilton’s TV show on VH1. He had to get his lawyer to contact Viacom’s lawyers to rescind the notices, which sound like they were automatically generated. These automated takedown notices are just going to keep backfiring on Viacom and other media companies that use them too liberally.
The fact is that Hilton got caught up in the middle of a war between YouTube and Viacom, one in which the weapons are software-generated takedown notices, software-generated e-mails, and software-generated account closures. He is not the only casualty. He is just the most vocal. But he should be just as angry at Viacom, who arguably started this war with its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube in the first place.
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I’d pay to see that!
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Watching that video was like getting a root canal then getting the $1200 bill.
perez can afford to bitchslap youtube - he makes a killing off his blog
Liza who?
Who cares about this moron and why is this on TechCrunch?
His opinions mean absolutely nothing to me (and I’m sure to most of TC readers) and I don’t give a flying fuck that he will not use YouTube anymore… I know I will and so will millions of other people regardless of what this idiot says or feels.
gossip. what are you bloggers thinking? you are the kings of the world?
I had the misfortune of reading his “blog” by accident. I had to close the browser window 30 seconds later. His site just oozes of stupidity, enough stupidity to make your brain rot continuously..
Amen. The guy needs to go suck on the end of a shotgun.
Hopefully this will not end up like Alan Baldwin’s promise to leave America if Bush got elected - as a total empty threat. If Perez is going to leave YouTube, let’s happily walk him out the door.
The fact that he thinks he’s important enough for YouTube to call him tells me two things about that shallow loser. 1. He has no concept of how little the real world cares about celebrity gossip, and 2. He has no concept of the size of Google’s operations and server farms.
In other words, he’s an idiot - and a little brash one at that. Someone didn’t get spanked enough as a child, because if I didn’t know better, this is the first time anyone has spanked him. It took a billion-dollar company to finally do what his parents should have done 20 years ago. When I grew up, if you kept trash-talking your parents after being punished, you got something even worse. Considering that Google also owns a very popular search engine, if Perez had any sense, he’d shut up and go away quietly. He doesn’t really believe that “do no harm” Wiccan mantra of Google, does he?
This is funny. I am all for automation … I hate manual processes, but there is a limit.
Perez is to Hollywood gossip as Arrington is to Tech gossip. They both have their markets. Good for them. Arrington needs a VH1 show tho.
And why should we care about the opinion of some flaming douche bag?
Good riddance I say!
In the realm of genuinely original, genuinely interesting user-generated content, nobody beats LiveLeak.com. Their directory is MUCH more worthwhile.
I really couldn’t care less what this guy has to say. I mean really….WHO CARES!
Even though i don’t think Perez is fun, i love TC for this kind of story.
@ Deron. Dude i can’t access your link.
Oh boy, here they come again… what’s next?
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Anyway he is getting good media coverage.
At least as a youtube partner he can post videos that violate the terms of use. Only youtube staff can flag a partner video for take down, regular users cant.
Look, the guy is a professional douchebag and not too bright.
Trying to explain to him about DMCA takedowns and how his bosses are the ones who are abusing this Clinton era monstrosity of a law would be a waste of time.
You might as well explain to Paris Hilton what H20 is.
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Bye Perez… Youtube will still be around when your teeth are falling out, so don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out.
Yes, yes, no one cares what he has to say - but as of now, his channel is the fifth most viewed this month on Youtube, and most of those views are generated from his website. If he starts posting somewhere else and other top channels do the same, Youtube loses some chunks of traffic. It obviously won’t kill the site, but they’re not looking to lose their top posters.