I made this post Pacquiao vs Hatton 2nd Round KO Video right after that boxing event. I downloaded the full video of the bout at YouTube (if you don’t know how to do that, read my post about it How to Download YouTube Videos), edited it by showing only the final knockdown portion and changing the background audio to a lullaby and then uploaded it back to YouTube. But one day later, I noticed that the video when played displays the message “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Home Box Office, Inc..”. Apparently, YouTube did a crackdown on ALL videos about the bout that has no copyright. That’s how strict and how fast YouTube is in implementing its rules. The worst thing is that, my account was also deleted due to repeated copyright violations, hehe..
And so I tried Metacafe. I uploaded the video to their web site, linked my post to it and the video is again playable. But one day later, the same thing happened. It was again deleted by Metacafe due to copyright issues. WTF?! Although I don’t want to do it, I was forced to upload the video to my host server. Now, no one can delete it (except me and my host of course). I embedded the video through the TinyMCE editor and republish the post.
