Guy Malone made me remove Christian Symposium videos

[ronaldomoon]

Just got a message from Guy Malone, the guy who puts on the Christian Symposium on Aliens.

Please remove our videos immediately or we will contact YouTube to have your account closed.

Guy

I'm kinda bummed about it. I figured he/they would have the same attitude as Alex Jones and would rather the information get out than to make money off of every single person that sees their videos. I removed the videos, of course, but I also sent him a message back. I explained that I understand that they need to make money, but at the same time, no one is going to ever hear about them if their videos don't get circulated on the internet. I used AJ as an example in the message...he seems to be more successful in the truth business than anyone else, and he allows his work to be freely distributed. I pay $50 a year for pp.tv and I don't even use it but I keep paying my $50 because I like the work Alex does and I want to support it. In my opinion, Guy Malone is only hurting his chances of reaching a broader audience by doing things like this.

Am I wrong to be disappointed? I understand that it costs money to make the videos but at the same time they have ZERO advertising so there's no other way to get exposure than to inject the videos in the interwebs and hope one goes viral. Thoughts?

[ronaldomoon]

Okay, I've already received a response from Guy's wife. She was very nice and apologized for her husband being "rather curt".

The gist of the response is that they understand where I'm coming from and appreciate the fact that I want to help spread the word, but I need to go about it a "not uploading the entire DVD" kind of way. I can live with that. She also said that they are making a sample DVD that can be physically copied and distributed freely, but not uploaded online. They are okay with clips from the DVDs being uploaded, just not the entire DVDs or lectures. And they want you to ask permission. That's pretty reasonable.

[Col3_11n12]

This reminds me of when that kid was sued for writing a mod to Civilization (the computer game).  The kid wrote the publisher (Infogrames) and said, "hey, look what I did with your game!"   Next he heard from them, it was their lawyers, suing him for infringement.   After he withdrew his mod, Infogrames decided to withdraw their claims "as a courtesy".   The kid was still stuck with his lawyer's fees.

I don't think the developer of the Civilization series (Firaxis software) still uses that publisher--they switched from Infogrames to 2K Publishing--but still, I was so disgusted I didn't play any more Civilization after that.   I also wrote Infogrames a very colorful email.