Removal of youtube videos "in your country" ...

Ultimately I'm not happy about this. The Brony community is a pretty awesome community. From what I've heard about in cons, actors and artists are known to show up and just have a blast. Artists and well known Bronies are supportive of each others. MLP: FiM's really brought people together.

Hasbro is a corporation. It's not out to make friends and its not out to see the good its doing in the world. It's a consequence of it's main objective that people have made friends -- it's out to make money. They implemented a systematic video take down procedure on youtube, removing some of the vids for season 2. My understanding is Hasbro feeds the system a little video and audio from the episode and it can block it in your country. Which countries, I'm not sure, but America's one of them. The optimistic part of me says they're just testing the reaction, the realist says they're testing the system or it takes time to implement it.

My understanding of why this system was implemented is that Hasbro is trying to sell MLP: FiM to another country which shrugged it's shoulders and said MLP's online for free, why should we bother? That's a good point, albeit a rumour.

The video take down may subside, but let's look at this objectively -- we want MLP DVDs, but Hasbro's not likely to make a product there is no demand for. Why would an industry stock shelves with a product which won't move because its available for free?

I got my initial anger out in posts on other blogs because... I see it as we made this show what it is. However, we are not the demographic, therefore Hasbro would probably initially ignore us. We are just an anomaly, afterall. Cons have been popping up with celebrities and people have been going. To Hasbro, that was most likely unexpected I'd say Hasbro's realized it can make money off us now and has simply caught up with our love of their series. It's got a lot of people's interests to protect who have put a good chunk of change down on the series, and ours is, for some of us, completely free. My gut tells me to be grateful they enabled this for so long, though unhappy it's come to this.

I have the Hub and I order the DVDs because I don't believe in getting something from youtube in mass quantities that isn't just a passing curiosity. I still enjoy youtube vids and realize that youtube is the only way that some Bronies can enjoy MLP: FiM. Well, and I say this sincerity, that's really too bad :/

I'm grateful that they haven't gone after parodies using footage, fan-made material using footage, PMVs, ect. I don't know if they technically could, but they're allowing it.

If we get aggressive it won't do anything. Might even make things worse. I love MLP and realize we're at the point of having to adapt. That's a consequence of evolution. Having the youtube videos pulled will hurt the community, but it's Hasbro's intellectual property and business they must protect. Their extensions may be human, but they themselves shouldn't be looked at as such.