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KLAMarine on 01 February 2016
gooch_destroyer said:
Fine Brothers backed down from React World, they're cancelling everything.

Good.



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mornelithe on 01 February 2016

A message from the Fine Brothers
Hello,
We’re here to apologize.
We realize we built a system that could easily be used for wrong. We are fixing that. The reality that trademarks like these could be used to theoretically give companies (including ours) the power to police and control online video is a valid concern, and though we can assert our intentions are pure, there’s no way to prove them.
We have decided to do the following:
1. Rescind all of our “React” trademarks and applications.*
2. Discontinue the React World program.
3. Release all past Content ID claims.**
The concerns people have about React World are understandable, and that people see a link between that and our past video takedowns, but those were mistakes from an earlier time. It makes perfect sense for people to distrust our motives here, but we are confident that our actions will speak louder than these words moving forward.
This has been a hard week. Our plan is to keep making great content with the help of our amazing staff. Thank you for your time and for hearing us out.
Sincerely,
Benny and Rafi Fine
*This includes “React,” “Kids React,” “Elders React,” “Lyric Breakdown,” etc. Please note: It takes a while for the databases to update, but the necessary paperwork has been filed.
**Content ID is YouTube’s copyright system that automatically flags content that looks like or sounds like copyrighted content. This mostly flags videos that are direct re-uploads of our videos (which is what the system is built for), but if you know of a video that has been claimed or removed incorrectly, please email us with “false claim” in the subject line.


https://medium.com/@FineBrothersEnt/a-message-from-the-fine-brothers-a18ef9b31777#.5mlomhwvo



Kjartan on 02 February 2016

A really good summary of the whole thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hc2FEEqMns

They can apologize a million times, I won't support them anymore.



NNID/PSN: Kung_Kjartan

Hedra42 on 02 February 2016
KLAMarine said:
Hedra42 said:
Over 200,000 down, and still dropping at a rate of 112 a minute at the time of posting this, as recorded here. https://tfbsubscribers.github.io/

Fascinating.

This is fascinating to watch.

Am I terrible for wanting to see it only fall further and faster?

No more terrible than the guy who created the tracking, and the rest of us for watching it.

Something like this needed to happen in Youtube, generally. It sends an important message, I think.



theprof00 on 02 February 2016

I'm personally going to include "react" in all my tags from now on despite not having anything to do with the video



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hershel_layton on 02 February 2016

Ok everyone, let's see if we can make them reach 10 million subscribers!



 

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