Sorry I've been away from the blog for so long! I know you're just itching for your beaver fix, so let's jump right in.
Back in April, my favorite website Gawker alerted us to Google's fun new campaign to help curb copyright infringement on it's YouTube site by sentencing violators to "copyright school":
Copyright school consists of watching an animated PSA (above) explaining YouTube's copyright policies, then passing a quiz to prove you were paying attention. If you don't pass, you can't upload anymore videos. Ostensibly this is to educate violators to keep them from screwing up again, but in reality it's all about humiliating adults by making them watch cartoon rabbits explain piracy. Unfortunately, there's no little certificate you can send away for and hang on the wall of your office.
Russell, the oblivious lime-green beaver pirate (look, he even has a hook for a right hand!) featured in the video, learns a very important lesson when, after posting a video online of his special needs moose friend's new movie, "Lumpy & The Lumpettes," his YouTube account is suspended, and he is threatened with the possibility of being banned for life if he commits any more violations. Oh no!
Viewers are then given a 2-minute crash course on how to avoid such a tragedy. Finally, perhaps as a menacing metaphor to illustrate just how bad life would be without YouTube -- or maybe just one mind-fuck of a plot twist not seen since The Sixth Sense -- we watch in horror as recent copyright school graduate Russell is viciously attacked by the trio of piranha he was inexplicably juggling from inside a cannon just seconds before the cannon misfired, sending him blasting through the hull of his pirate ship and into the water below where the offending fish savagely ripped the flesh from the poor little beaver's bones and ate him for dinner.
Wow! I have to say, I didn't see that one coming. Maybe M. Night Shyamalan really was involved in this after all (see also, the 10,509 "dislikes" registered thus far). Also involved, maybe LSD.
Wow! I have to say, I didn't see that one coming. Maybe M. Night Shyamalan really was involved in this after all (see also, the 10,509 "dislikes" registered thus far). Also involved, maybe LSD.
So to clarify: Don't violate copyrights by posting unauthorized videos on YouTube, or you might risk not being able to ever violate said copyrights on YouTube in the future. That, or you might die at the fins of some ill-tempered man-eating fish that you once molested, while tripping on acid. Either way, just play it safe and follow the law, dam-it. And be kind to beavers.
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