I'm fine with the idea of keeping our general shenanigans in Community as an effort to reduce our impact on the OT (although I expected we'd all be shoveled into the one thread in OT, not that we'd be allowed two threads).
But when the threads were merged and I lost my subscriptions to them, I actually thought that nobody had posted anything for a day or two, and I thought to myself "Wow, the mods must be pleased that we got that "new thread" excitement out of the way pretty quick, and we're not causing a scene while we wait for Sunday."
EviLore said:
Yeah, obviously while it's not our job to act as copyright enforcement agents for big corporations, copyrighted media can be posted on streaming video sites without any oversight, and only when the copyright holder files a complaint (or has an automated removal system in place) is anything done about it. Just not really appropriate ethically to link to full episodes or movies or whatnot just via the argument that not having been removed from youtube yet constitutes tacit approval.
I think it's safe to say that Hasbro
has given tacit approval to MLP episodes on Youtube. The internet has been very good to them, and they've spent the better part of a year trying to figure out what happened and how to keep it going. They've openly seen just about everything that the fandom is doing
except for our weekly synchtube sessions. At this point I can't believe that they've missed the Youtube episodes. They saw them, and then they looked away. Trolls have been actively trying to rat us out to Youtube/Hasbro for almost a year, and when that didn't work they tried impersonating Hasbro and making false takedown claims, which were actually denied by Hasbro and overturned. They HAVE TO know what's going on.
But I think NeoGAF shouldn't get into the habit of expecting companies to take this sort of approach, so in that sense I think it's a good idea not to have a wall of Youtube links in any OP.