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The video in question can still be viewed on the Internet archive

https://archive.org/details/the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-went...

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It is streaming very slowly for me, but thanks to the person in Germany seeding the torrent :-)

https://archive.org/download/the-gbp-25-000-pre-amp-that-wen...

This video is great. One of the better uses of the Internet.

Google/YouTube/Alphabet should be doing everything they can to encourage high-quality educational content like this, rather than being party to suppressing it.

Anyone with a return address and big cash flows is ultimately a slave to the civil court system, with all of its inherent flaws (such as claims without merit being able to cost you thousands of dollars that you cannot recoup).

It is in the best interest of large hosting companies, datacenters, and UGC sites to shy away from anything that remotely smells of liability because the costs can instantly far exceed the revenues from small customers due to the flaws of the US legal system.

Many other civil systems use a “loser pays” model for funding lawyers, but if you get sued in the US and win, you still have to pay for your own lawyers unless you countersue (and your opponent is collectible). This opens up a very obvious denial of service attack.

In this case, doesn't the injustice work for Alphabet (not that that's just)?

Can't they just establish a "we will not negotiate with terrorists" kind of reputation, and when they see abusive misuse of DMCA, then the abuser is facing very deep pockets of Alphabet, who is motivated to make a lesson of them?

Google's current approach to copyright on YouTube was adopted following their settlement agreement with Viacom [1]. While the terms were never disclosed, that settlement probably constrains how Google can handle copyright policing on YouTube.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y....

I agree, but the incentives for Alphabet to encourage content like this isn't there. The content that is encouraged is that which keeps eyeballs glued to YouTube.

Just jumped into the middle of the video somewhere and, wow, that's very much a prototype-looking amp inside.

Any chance it's the music he plays on his turntable, during the last 1 minute of the video?

Shazam says it's Khruangbin - People Everywhere (Still Alive)

Not unless the owner of that track is also the creator of this amplifier.

I thought he said it was unknown who filed the copyright claim, since Google doesn't provide that info.

Google (well, YouTube) does provide that info.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-RJbpFSFziI

    Video Unavailable
    This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Tom Evans

I watched the entire thing and the only item that seems even remotely like infringement is the service manual containing the Tom Evans name that Mark made himself.

And that would be a trademark.

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