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Comment by booleandilemma | Hacker News Reader

Who’s making these weird videos? Has anyone taken credit?

I never though of this question before, so I went down the rabbit hole to find the answer.

I started by checking the ownership of the videos on YouTube (through Content ID). All recent videos are claimed by emails on a domain entonegroup.com. The domain itself yields nothing as it's registered with an extra privacy option.

However the email leads to a lady that works for Entertainment One that also advertises [0] the ownership of the content.

I also checked the earliest videos of Peppa and it seems like they were produced by a different individuals, which would suggest that, at least this show, was acquired by Entertainment One.

[0] https://www.entertainmentone.com/

Entertainment One owns Peppa Pig[1]. It's likely that Content ID thinks Elsagate is legitimate Peppa videos.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_One

Just to verify, are you talking about the _real_ Peppa Pig videos, or the fake, weird ones?

Because as far as I can gather using Wikipedia, Entertainment One is the company behind the _real_ Peppa Pig. If you're saying that there is also reason to believe that they are behind the _fake_ Peppa Pig, that would be much larger news, which (looking at the amount of interest in the story), it isn't.

Edit: Ah, mFixman suggests a plausible explanation:

> Entertainment One owns Peppa Pig[1]. It's likely that Content ID thinks Elsagate is legitimate Peppa videos.

> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entertainment_One

That makes more sense :)

Your [0] link 404s for me.

I changed it back to the home page. I grabbed the link from their homepage where you can see Peppa Pig, but it doesn't seem to be working directly.

here's a working one, they aren't hiding it https://www.entertainmentone.com/home/EN/peppa-pig

This also 404s; like the sibling comment says, it works from the homepage but not if you try to go to it directly.

You'll land on the correct page if you add a trailing slash: https://www.entertainmentone.com/home/EN/peppa-pig/

But from the home page you're redirected to an URL without the trailing slash that doesn't work when copied and pasted.

Same people making Chumboxes.

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