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Has Anyone Ever Got In Trouble From Youtube?

by Affillionaire
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Just wondering if anyone has ever tried modifying a Youtube embed video and got in any trouble with Youtube?

It says in the TOS:

If you use the Embeddable Player on your website, you may not modify, build upon, or block any portion or functionality of the Embeddable Player, including but not limited to links back to the YouTube website.
But I could've sworn I've read posts of people modifying embedded videos,

So I was wondering if anyone has ever received a warning or notice or even legal action from Youtube regarding this.
#toutube #trouble #youtube
  • Profile picture of the author promo_guy
    That's a good question.

    I guess some WP plugins that change skin colors etc. doesn't constitute "modifying" the player but not sure about anything else. Hopefully someone will chime in as I'm curious about this as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author carlhenson
    I thought, what is "Toutube"?

    Anyway, that line in TOS is basically for completion purposes but seriously, who would check stuffs like that unless it was from some highly popular videos.
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    • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
      TouTube........I didn't catch that maybe I should keep in like that to strike peoples interest.
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  • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
    Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

    You can't easily modify Youtube embeds. So it's a moot point really.
    How is that? If you have the code why couldn't you easily modify it?
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    • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
      Nobody ever said anything about Youtube NOT having a clickable backlink to the source. I don't even care about that.

      I am wondering if anyone has ever modified it (if it can or can't which I find it hard to beleive that they can't or else Youtube would probably NOT have added that in their TOS) and if so have they ever gotten into a leagal action with Youtube.

      So lets just stay on topic. Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
        Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

        Dude you quoted it in the TOS in your opening post lol

        Now if you mean the actual flash player part of the embed, well be my guest and show me an example of someone modifying it. It's nigh on impossible and even if one knew how to do it, there are better alternatives.
        Yes I know that. I said "if it can't" because I was referring to you and what you said.

        I mean ANY PART OF THE EMBED CODE. If anyone has modified it in any way and got in trouble with YouTube then speak up.
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        • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
          About the clickable backlink to the website.......I PERSONALLY am not SPECIFICALLY saying anything about that. Strictly MODIFYING THE CODE is all I am talking about.
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  • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
    Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

    Well simple changes to the code are fine. You can change colours, resize the window and even put it on autoplay.

    Youtube just don't want you to abuse their bandwidth with the loss of credit (including backlink) to them.

    What sort of change do you have in mind?
    Thats the type of answer I am looking for. But what I plan on changing I can't discuss here.
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    • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
      Originally Posted by Chris Kent View Post

      If all you're doing is editing the look and feel, I can't really see a problem. I'm struggling to think what you might be thinking of though.
      I won't change the look or feel or the link back to Youtube, but I will need to modify the code. (That part I can't describe here) Sorry....
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    • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
      Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

      These are a few things that can be done to a youtube video, I have never done this but I know of marketers who do, and they do it on an unlisted page.
      • Auto play a video
      • Auto hide video controls once video starts playing
      • Hide controls completely
      • Hide the Youtube logo
      • Hide related videos
      • Hide or show info
      • Start video "X seconds" in
      • Combined any of the features above
      Ok this is more like what I'm looking for. So to do all of this you will have to modify and make changes to the embed script, am I right?
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  • Profile picture of the author wildcat90
    not sure about your case, but my account got removed for copyright reasons
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    • Profile picture of the author Affillionaire
      Originally Posted by wildcat90 View Post

      not sure about your case, but my account got removed for copyright reasons
      Yeah, I don't plan on using any copywrited material and it sounds like that wouldn't be a "modified code" problem, but what did about your situation, besides getting account removed? Anything?
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  • Profile picture of the author arranrice
    No, never. You can only made custom skins for youtube videos i think...
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