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1. Hitler, as "Downfall producer" orders a DMCA takedown

1 year ago

Full details at ideas.4brad.com/hitler-tries-dmca-takedown - There are hundreds of parodies of this "Downfall" clip. The studio, Constantin Films, has ordered takedowns of some of them, and eventually even had this parody removed from YouTube. In this clip, Hitler is the producer, and his lawyers tell him why he can't do a DMCA takedown and how the EFF could stop him. He desperately searches for other ways to protect the movie.

Made by Brad Templeton, an EFF board member (but releasing the video on his own.) This video educates about intellectual property issues and parodies the actions of the studio using the very clip they are censoring.

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Mark Cornelius 1 year ago

I created an account on Vimeo just to rate this up.
Martin Bean 1 year ago

Fantastic.
Jeroen Mirck 1 year ago

Parody of parodies!
John Coffey 1 year ago

The Final Solution! Well done.
Aaron Richard 1 year ago

Win.
Sean O 1 year ago

Great stuff.

See also, the original meta-Downfall parody:
sean-o.com/hitlermeme
Peter Martin 1 year ago

Today YouTube... tomorrow ze...?
Nina Paley 1 year ago

Bravo!
Brad Templeton 1 year ago

I'm greatly honoured to get a fav from the fabulous Nina Paley. You should all go check out her work now.
Nina Paley 1 year ago

I'm honored you're honored! Mutual Admiration Society!
wreckandsalvage 1 year ago

Beeyoot! Very well done.
Sascha Henrichs 1 year ago

1 down, 10 up :D
Kazo 1 year ago

i'm downloading this!
Crusher 1 year ago

really cool! <3
Aaron Barnhart 1 year ago

Brad Templeton! Still rec.funny after all these years...

For people who are interested in knowing more about fair use and YouTube parodies, here are some resources I've reported on: ow.ly/1B1uu
Tyler Bradford 1 year ago

Same here, created account to upvote. YouTube pussies...LOL.
Saami Matloob 1 year ago

awesome :D youtube pusssiez awesome
Zo Bird 1 year ago

I also created an account just to bump! This is THE awesome! Great job!
Endre 1 year ago

I registered to "like" this, a proper answer, haha. dmca is stone age tbh and it's a law against humanity and creativity...
Ciro Urdaneta 1 year ago

good one Brad!
wreckandsalvage 1 year ago

Beautiful. Great job Brad.
gnssengr 1 year ago

I'm glad this is the last Hitler video parody I have to watch. That ended the interminable series very well.
Alejandro Pedernera 1 year ago

hahaha excellent, so apparently the producer adopted Hitler's methods. What he did is no less than censorship!
Michael Harris 1 year ago

Love it, well done.
Mike Kobal 1 year ago

Great job, Brad. I think most of us would sign up to rate this movie.
Foxox 1 year ago

The Hitler Downfall takedowns a few days ago inspired me to move to Vimeo; glad to see this here haha!
King Learie 1 year ago

The one that was done of the demolition of the Bowstring Bridge in Leicester was bedwetting funny!
Its all the tossing lawyers who don't see how this positively promotes the film. Even the director saw the advantage and good fun here - "Laughter is the best weapon against fascism". He said.
Chris R 1 year ago

Brad, your rants about the finale to Battlestar Galactica are insane and absurd, but this restores my faith in your thought process. Effective, truthful and funny. All this will do for Youtube is to drive traffic to sites like this, assuming they aren't also run by pussies.
Bernd Kilga 1 year ago

Fantastic! Love it.
daimonos 1 year ago

Genius
bradbell.tv 1 year ago

"... a lawsuit factory!"

:-)
kakica 1 year ago

new on Vimeo. Fuck jutub (LOL)
kakica 1 year ago

"Mein Fuhrer, that would shut Linux!!!
kakica 1 year ago

"Screw them, If they don't use Windows, who cares!" MEINE FUHRER, I CAN WALK!!!
kakica 1 year ago

Downfall is great WWII movie and this parodies just boosting it. And, of course, it is funny stuff. We are the Nature, let's have some fun for a couple years. There is nothing that we can take with us on the "next level". I am
kakica 1 year ago

"The Hitler meme is one of the most symbolic viral sensations to represent Internet culture: By taking one of the greatest monsters of the 20th century and making him say stupid things, the Hitler meme exemplifies the digital age's credo, "Nothing is sacred, everything is funny." It is, essentially, a troll in video form."
Андреја Костић 1 year ago

I joined just to say GREAT VIDEO!!!