Holy crap! My wife and kids are away for the weekend, so I’ve been uber-surfing. Youtube has freaking everything I ask of it: Beatles, Doors, Stones, Alan Parsons, ELO, plus hockey, plus ANYTHING!
I am frankly amazed at the content! And how do they shirk the piracy rules?
Major League Baseball
Yes. The fifth video on making gear cutting hobs at home, in your spare time.
They take down anything that copyright owners complain about, basically. It turns out that few of them know their content is on there, and fewer still care - in fact it can boost their take from the copyright material as some people who wouldn’t have bought it before do so.
Also the limit is, what, 10 minutes or so per video, so it’s just practical to have a half-hour TV show on there but not a 90 minute film.
Not on YouTube: The third season of Slings and Arrows; most of the second series of Black Books- at least, last time I looked. It’s rare to find Doctor Who Confidentials.
Anything except the most disjointed clips from Men With Brooms.
Also, good luck finding a Horatio Hornblower video that isn’t shipping Hornblower/Archie or Hornblower/Bush (or, in one case, Matthews/Jack Hammond)
I’ve noticed an unfortunate trend for awesome scenes from movies to be posted to Youtube with crappy music dubbed over them - not music videos like AMVs where the video is edited to fit the song, but where the person felt some song “just totally fits” with a scene and sticks the two together as-is. Is this just a case of the videos without the music dubbed over them getting pulled, or an annoying fan thing?
I avoid any video with “mashup” in the title.
Well, Avex has been extremely aggressive about getting pretty much all the Ayumi Hamasaki music videos off of there, and I know UFC keeps a very tight leash on its fights and…that’s about all I know offhand. (There are some old Pride and K1 fights if you’re interested.)
Oh, yeah, nudity of any kind is absolutely forbidden, and they’re fairly tight on suggestiveness as well. However, if the video misleads viewers into thinking that’s a actual muff, groin, etc., but it’s later revealed to be a more mundane body part, that’s fine. Yeah, there’s that too. 
For the most part, it won’t get pulled if whoever owns it doesn’t have anything to gain by pulling it. Even Disney, notorious for its diabolical attachment to copyrights, doesn’t have any problem with uploading the classic shorts…How To Play Football, How To Play Golf, Goofy’s Glider, etc. Heck, a number of record labels are uploading their own videos to YouTube (this one, for example] ). Hey, it’s cheap publicity, and the viewers weren’t paying for it to begin with, right?
Check out the trailer for Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete”, about halfway through. [Isaac Hayes] Ohhh, yeah . . .[/IH]
Mother and Son
The episode of Weakest Link in which CJ has a rant after being voted off.
BBC pulled Catherine Tate’s Janice and Ray skit “Battered Veg and Spicy Jam”. Dirty, robbing bastards.
Rodney Carrington - “Show them to me” NSFW (I don’t know how to break a link, sorry - if you just search show them to me, you’ll get it.) has been up since last August and features at least 3 women baring their breasts. I think there might be more nudity there than you suspect…
And it’s a very clever song, too.
Straight, complete versions of the Simpson’s Treehouses of Horror, with their easily-digestible 7 minute clips, seem to be missing almost completely, as are Itchy and Scratchy bits. Looney Tunes are very hit or miss-some stuff has stayed up there for years now, others seem to get kiboshed pretty quickly.
You need to watch “Toy Story Requiem” It’s a mashup but insanely well done. Easily one of my favorite videos on Youtube.
Video of Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon. I was debating with a 9-11-Truther yesterday, and the only footage I could find on Youtube supported her theory.
The enhancement shown here doesn’t butter any parsnips with those 9-11 Truthers.
Bootleg clips of the legendary Broadway flop “Carrie.”
If you’re fast, and know what to search for, you can even find hardcore porn clips. Usually very brief, and often disappeared within 30 minutes of getting posted, but they do show up with some regularity.
And nudity happens, especially if it’s “artistic”. There is a video that is a nude pregnant woman sort of… dancing in the shower. It’s very lovely, and I have always been surprised that it remains. A search for “Gravida” will probably turn it up, though I haven’t tried in quite some time.
The episode of “The Real McCoys”, where Hassie turns on the faucet and the whole family sees indoor plumbing at work for the first time isn’t there. It’s hillarious.
A straight clip of the Family Guy “Where’s My Money Brian?” scene.
Sports guy often does requests for videos.
I don’t think he’s been able to turn up a clip of Sam Cassell do his nut sack dance, which many of us remember fondly.
Damn you, Squink, I watched part 4, and now I’m on the edge of my seat wondering how to finish it!
Seriously, though, I started it thinking I wasn’t going to watch a 10-minute video about machining an obscure tool part, but I stuck around for the whole thing! There’s something about using fancy machine tools that I find just fascinating. I really wish I had learned more about that sort of stuff and had the time, aptitude, and expensive tools (to say nothing of the shop space) to make stuff like that. I’ve known and worked with skilled machinists, and admire them as much as or more than most other people I’ve met.
