Chatroulette Improv Piano Player Removed from YouTube

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“Merton, a.k.a. the Chatroulette Improv Piano Player, has had his viral video yanked off of YouTube “due to terms of use violation.” Our understanding is that the video didn’t violate any copyrights; instead, there were likely privacy issued involved, as most of the people in the video didn’t know that they were becoming part of a viral video.”

This sucks but I can see why they did it- apart from the Owl City cover it was entirely made up of his own compositions, but the recording of strangers online is probably a big issue. As such, he’s put out an updated version with some of the people blurred out. (Although plenty of copies of the original remain without any modification…) It’s linked above if you’d like to re-favourite it, as it’s an entirely new submission without all the past (+4mil) views and favourite.

Personally I wonder whether this might become an issue with any Chatroulette videos posted onto YouTube, will people have to start putting up notices on their Webcams to state that they are being recorded, or will Chatroulette themselves create a T&C that includes that information?

Posted via web from Xander’s Ponderings

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