Starting earlier today most videos on YouTube that have anything to do with Windows, from “How to use Windows 8.1” to Downloading Windows 7 beta are getting taken down due to copyright strikes.
So Microsoft did a copyright takedown on my “How To use Windows 8.1” @youtube video. I kind of work for Microsoft. https://t.co/SDsFAJGbQr
— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) October 14, 2014
Chris Pirillo was one of the victims of whats now known as #Microstopped about “Windows 7 Upgrade or Anytime Upgrade?” Here is what the notice looks like:
WHAT THE HELL, @Microsoft?! Dude, Microsoft is going after EVERY SINGLE video about Windows on YouTube?! WARNING! pic.twitter.com/489ybiywY5
— Chris Pirillo (@ChrisPirillo) October 14, 2014
If you were planing on uploading a video about anything that has to do something with Windows than, you might want to wait until this is fixed. Microsoft has said nothing about this right now…
UPDATE Oct. 14 2014, 11:50 P.M. : Microsoft has said that the videos that were removed included infringement of copyright in the comment section by users posting Product Keys. It doesn’t matter if the infringement was in the video itself or not. This problem is currently being fixed.
