CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY!
In other words, don't file a DMCA on our stealing photos of your beloved one.
We only meant this as...a way to get monetization money.
Donald Trump does have a point about FAKE NEWS.
Here, some asshole pretends to be a network of some kind (CBN...isn't that like CNN or something...).
The game is to kneejerk the death of any celebrity into a CONDOLENCES video.
What do grieving fans get? They get a NEWSWER-type plagiarism of Wikipedia or a real obituary. The no-talent jerk then uses a voice program to have the obit robot-spoken, and mated to Googled photos used with NO permission.
If you flagged this hack-work, you'd get nowhere.
The Great God Google has a very specific drop-down menu of things that they'll even bother to have somebody in Pakistan glance at.
Copyright theft ain't there. They expect a photographer to send in a DMCA on a photo abuse. Five or ten days later, after the uploader has made all the money, the video might be pulled.
As for stealing/re-writing a newspaper's obit, the newspaper would have to file, and prove it, and explain the damages. And then get a robot form letter from Google saying "This was not submitted properly. Submit it again."
Any GOOD news here on the BAD news of obits being a YOUTUBE scam?
Well, so many jerks are doing this, that they can only make chump change.
After a major scandal, a major sports event, any kind of death, people type in key words on YouTube and find:
Way too many cut-and-paste robot-voice reports, and WAY too many assholes seated behind a desk in Mommy's Basement giving their OPINION of what happened.
YouTube is only diluting its website with this garbage, and making it difficult for people to find REAL news and entertainment. But...traffic is traffic, and until people STOP bothering and learn to get their information from reliable sources, YouTube will still slap ads on everything uploaded, and The Great God Google will continue to be one of the richest and least moral companies on the Internet.
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