Uri Geller making Youtube pull down James Randi's criticism?

zombiebex said:
He invented the word "Explorologist."

Speaking of cruel language... "But does anybody every call me anything but a spoon-bender?" Huh?
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This reminds me of an old joke I heard once..

"For twenty years, I build ships.. do they call me 'Carl the shipbuilder'?
For 35 years I fish for Tuna, but do they call me 'Carl the fisherman'?
I suck one cock..."
 
zombiebex said:
Like I said, I've had a similar experience with a company claiming ownership of a generic term that is used by a group of friends in a not-for-profit and purely social setting. After threatening to shut down Yahoo Groups and websites, the company then went on to change their own website to make it look better for them.


I sure wouldn't put it past Geller to do the same.
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Neither the term nor the company's name starts with an, "S" does it?

Because that whole kerfluffle was mindboggling.
 
osmosis said:
This reminds me of an old joke I heard once..

"For twenty years, I build ships.. do they call me 'Carl the shipbuilder'?
For 35 years I fish for Tuna, but do they call me 'Carl the fisherman'?
I suck one cock..."
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I'm sure that was a British comedian,but cannot recall.Amazingly the forum censor let this go..;)
 
kellyb said:
It could have been a complaint filed years ago, but no matter how you look at it, it's Uri trying to squash criticism. Even if it took a year to come to fruition.

And since someone here re-uploaded it again, and it was almost immediately pulled, that really makes me think they're still active.
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And, again, he's representing himself as the copyright owner, fraudulently. This opens him up to certain penalties. I rather like that.
 
osmosis said:
This reminds me of an old joke I heard once..

"For twenty years, I build ships.. do they call me 'Carl the shipbuilder'?
For 35 years I fish for Tuna, but do they call me 'Carl the fisherman'?
I suck one cock..."
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Did he spit out the feathers afterward?
 
I tried to tally up clips using just the keywords "uri geller" in a YouTube search. I set out to preview them all to try and assess how many were pro or con. What I found out was that I can't stomach that much Uri Geller. So this is rather unscientific (I think I missed a page; 170 total results, I tallied 139 videos, but lordy I'm not doing it again). But I did try to go through them, and I don't think my numbers are way off base.

I'll spare the breakdown (though I'll post it if anyone cares). Of note, though, 21 were uploaded by "shipishtrang" accompanied by a link to Uri's web page.

I don't know how many were removed, but, as of now, I'd hazard a guesstimate that a third are pro Uri. 6% are critical of Uri. The rest are a hodgepodge of miscellaneous videos. Only two were of James Randi, one from '73, the other from The View.
 
I tried a different approach by using google to search for pages that mention "Uri Geller" and "youtube.com/watch" and then looked for unique video ID's. My search wasn't scientific because I also included the search term "fraud". As a result, I only found 1 Uri video that wasn't pulled.
 
zombiebex said:
Just did a YouTube "Uri Geller" search.

Doesn't look like there's a single piece of critical video left.
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Actually, the very first search result on "Geller" at YouTube is highly critical of him. Watch it till the end, it's only 90 seconds long.

It's the German Comedian Oliver Kalkofe, ridiculing an appearance of Geller on a 70ies TV show in Germany. First, you see the original footage, then the comedian, making the iron club in his hand 'soft like butter' (like the spoon in the TV show). After he hits the other guy with the club, which obviously did not become soft, he says "If you guys at home don't concentrate with me together, I can't do it, I can't perform my trick".


delphi_ote said:
Uri is abusing the DMCA to intimidate the people exposing him. If Randi takes this fight on, he could definitely get help from Chilling Effects and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. This is precisely the kind of abuse they're concerned about.
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A short video trailer I made for an open source computer game was recently removed from YouTube. Viacom (!) claimed the copyright. Of course, this was not true, since all material used was GPL/open source licensed.

The guy who uploaded the video contacted YouTube, two weeks later it was online again.

RSLancastr said:
And even if YouTube puts them back up, it may not be under the same URL, in which case all of those links will continue to be dead ends.
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If they put it online again, it will be the same URL. Which is important, of course, since all links point to that URL.
 
Randi should have emailed me back. I could have provided further details.

Explorologist Limited was incoporated on September 12, 2000. According to the records of the last three years it has not turned a profit (that's being nice about it).
 
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