The Richter Scales climbed the popularity pole very quickly over the past few days because of their video parody of the most successful and popular websites of today. The video called Here Comes Another Bubble reached viral status and got a little less than 700,000 views on YouTube alone and over 1,200 diggs. But now thanks to Lane Hartwell and her lawyer that video is no longer available on YouTube. She sent a DMCA copyright violation notice to YouTube and when you go to play the video all you get is We’re sorry, this video is no longer available. You can see this in action in a previous TeqEdge blog entry – Tech Bubble 2.0 video. Lane Hartwell is a contributor to Wired and has made allegations before that her work was being used without permission. This time she has gotten her way and forced Richter Scales to take the video down. Michael Arrington from TechCrunch says …

I spoke with a copyright attorney this afternoon … Copyright is a structure around prohibitions, not permissions, he says. That means it lays out rules for things people cannot do with your work – it does not give you the right to demand permission before any use is made.

What Is This Video?

Watch the Here Comes Another Bubble by Richter Scales. The video is reproduced below from DailyMotion for your viewing pleasure.

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Source: Wired