It might be wise to remind Meat of the following, Wario:
In regards to the legality of the video home recording act settled by Congress with the Home Recording Act (P.L. 102-563,106 Stat.4237, Codified at 17 U.S.C. 1001-1010) in October 1992, no action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright based on the manufacture, importation, or distribution of a digital or analog recording medium or based on the noncommercial use of such a device or medium. No rights are intended, expressed or implied.
To call for removal of the videos, the copyright holder has to allege infringement of copyright, and by extension violation of the above-mentioned act. This means that such removals of the videos, under U.S. law, are technically a miscarriage of justice. Red Pony Tours, and every other copyright holder out there, should know better, to say nothing of the fact that Red Pony's ownership is questionable unless provable; for example, Red Pony called for the removal of Meat and Patti's CHSIB at Party in the Park '03, but unless they signed an agreement stating otherwise, the footage thereof should belong to the Party in the Park organizers and therefore it should be their call, and not Meat's. I see a lot of over-stepping and shoddy legal work here, and I'm not sure I like it.
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