YouTube Takedown Again Being Used To Try To Block Newsworthy Con...

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Courtesy Techdirt  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 01:28

Apparently, there's a big hubbub up in Canada over an embarrassing act involving Prime Minister Stephen Harper pocketing a communion wafer during a Catholic funeral.

The video of the episode is getting a lot of attention... but now one of the main copies of the video has been taken down due to a YouTube copyright claim .

Still, what's really odd is that the video was done by CPAC, but the takedown notice is from Radio Canada. As Michael...


 

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