Alright, apparently Fox is going to be a pain about that. I have to be AFK for a bit, so I can't put up an alt video until later. My apologies, I will replace this later today.
The main reason this kind of thing hasn't been challenged yet in court is because the legal fees involved in fighting laws that haven't caught up to technology would immediately bankrupt anyone, especially when it's one person fighting a corporate conglomerate.
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Except the DMCA specifically protects things like parody and Criticism, so the law is already there and was made for the age of the internet and Youtube in particular. Also, a large enough group of people filing a class action suit would alleviate the costs on everyone involved..
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As others have pointed out, Fair Use is a legal defense. One with, at best, basically no legal precedent besides single law that was almost passed in 2007, with no meaningful update since. I'm all in favor of a class action suit, but that would require some form of unionization.
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