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Chatroulette Improv Piano Player Removed from YouTube

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"This is a new, edited version of the original Video #1. I had to make some changes in order for YouTube to be happy with it.
My apologies to all of the subscribers for being summoned here just to see a repeat post, but there was no way around it.

For the record, the original video had 4,238,658 Views. At the time of its demise, it was the Top-Rated YouTube Video of All Time. No shit."

It appears that two people featured in the video requested that their faces were removed. He has now uploaded an edited version. http://www.youtube.com/user/PianoChatImprov

I wonder if they were even verified. Like, could I go on there now and just say I'm the first dude, and ask them to take it down? Or would Google request that I send in a picture to prove it?

"most of the people in the video didn’t know that they were becoming part of a viral video."

If we only knew the formula for viral videos, ad agencies would be all over that. Unfortunately/Luckily, there is no such formula..

They do know, I have a friend who works at a seeding agency, and they know very, very well how it works.

Make it funny/stupid/sexy enough, and people will watch it.

A couple of good examples of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xfBNxNds0Q http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USYa5iH3f3s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJmqCKtJnxM

Don't know if the latter was launched as a viral campaign, but my point is that you know it and the brand it was from if I'd phone you up and shout "WASSUP".

Marketing is a lot scarier that you think.

you know it and the brand it was from if I'd phone you up and shout "WASSUP".

I doubt that most people would. They know the meme; they remember the commercials, but what brand? I mean, without looking, I believe it was beer, but I'm not totally certain even of that.

I recalled immediately that it was Budweiser and I haven't seen it in years. I wasn't even old enough to legally drink when they originally aired.

My memory (usually block it out to begin with) in recalling brands from commercials is terrible so I'm inclined to believe most people would remember. But we are both just guessing.

I knew that it was Budweiser even though the commercial never aired where I live. Heck, I'm not even sure you can buy Budweiser here.

How is this gonna work then? Will he have to take down every video that someone complains about, losing all the views and everything? That sucks. Maybe he should start uploading to a new site.

I wonder if Ben Folds will get similar complaints, forcing him to upload an edited video as well. Perhaps by that dude on the toilet (Hey BAM! ...on the can.)

Maybe he should start asking people for their permission.

The thing is that by the nature of ChatRoulette that's hardly possible.

ironic that people on chatroulette care about privacy.

People go to chatroulette to talk to another random person, not to be broadcast to the whole world. It's not any more ironic than "rain on your wedding day".

But people on chatroulette are broadcast to the whole world, just one person at a time.

I know that sounds cheeky, but chatroulette users are already taking chances with privacy, they're letting some random stranger view into their lives. Maybe they're not expecting a record of their interaction to be made, but even that isn't that good of an expectation considering chatroulette videos started showing up on YouTube almost as soon as chatroulette started.

Logging on with a live cam to ChatRoulette to begin with seems to me a pretty clear way to abandon your privacy . . .

It's interesting that the takedown revolves around privacy - I get it at some level, but still.

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