YouTube became inaccessible a spoof of a Galaxy Note 7 … – Interfax

Moscow. 21 Oct. INTERFAX.RU Videos many users of YouTube, making fun in the entourage of Grand Theft Auto V the main problem of the company today – exploding Galaxy Note 7 – has been removed. About this reports “bi-Bi-si”. Users complained inaccessible to rollers, closed for alleged copyright infringement.

After reports are prone to fires and explosions recently released smartphones began to grow like a snowball, gamers released the mod to the multi-platform video game in the genre of action – Grand Theft Auto V. In the story the player could use the smartphone as an explosive device to eliminate certain targets: heroes threw the phone as a grenade.

the Original page is modified version of the game, created player HitmanNiko also available.

Samsung has not yet commented on the situation with the removal of content on YouTube. Many are unhappy with the disappearance of rollers noted that this measure will attract even more negative attention to the Corporation. Users explain that the history of the prohibition can result in the so-called “Streisand effect”. This phenomenon is reflected in the fact that the attempt to remove certain information only leads to wider dissemination.

the Term “Streisand effect” was first used in 2005, the author of our Techdirt Mike Masnick. The notion became widespread after the incident in 2003 when American singer and actress Barbra Streisand has filed a demand to recover from photographer Kenneth Adelman and the website Pictopia.com $ 50 million Streisand was outraged that the photo of her house was available among more than 12 thousand photos of the California coast.

Adelman argued that the permission and the government took a picture of the house along with other houses on the coast project California Coastal Records Project studying coastal erosion. The author further stated that information about the lawsuit brought to its web site the attention of more than a million visitors, and the photo used in the photo archive of the news Agency Associated Press and, in turn, led to its reprinting many Newspapers around the world.