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We really appreciate everyone’s concern and we are very well aware of the implications of some of the things we’ve done. I’ll get with the proper people and we’ll get the TOU updated and release an announcement ASAP.

Thanks everyone…. keep the feedback coming.

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“… Viddler and its Partners respect the intellectual property of others, and we ask you and all of our users to do the same. Viddler may remove content from the Website that violates these policies and/or disable and/or terminate the accounts of users who may violate our policies. …”

So come on guys, you have some pretty cool technology here, and you appear to understand that the rights of content producers are to be respected. So why start off on the wrong foot? By including content from Napoleon Dynamite and music from Jamiroquai you are signaling to your audience that it is ok to mashup copyrighted content.

Not cool.