Probably not worth fighting for them... BUT

Ok - so I got my response from YouTube on the take-down notice from what I still suspect to be the fake Rick Jacobs:

Dear William,


Thank you for your counter-notification. It has been forwarded to the
party that sent the takedown notification. If we receive no response, your
material will be restored between 10 and 14 business days from today.


Sincerely,

Harry
The YouTube Team

Neat. I look forward to seeing how this turns out.

The YouTube Take-Down FIght Begins

I'm probably too late. I've just been really busy with other things, but back in July someone contacted me claiming to be Rick Jacobs. Things about the contact didn't sound very plausible, such as his (or her) calling his lawyer a "Soliciter". At any rate, shortly thereafter, YouTube took down my videos.

I've put in a counter-notification in an effort to - at a minimum - get the mark off my account. The claimant said that the issue was that I used the copyrighted bear photos -but let's be honest, my juvenile bigfoot response was itself ironically juvenile. I'd like to get my YouTube record cleared, and then get a SERIOUS posting on the matter, one with the gravitas to match all the damn work I did identifying the size of the mangy bear, interviewing biologists, talking with the PA state authorities, etc...

I'm a skeptic, that thing in the woods is almost certainly a bear, and the BFRO has been rather nasty on the whole matter IMHO. We'll see what happens. Even Loren Coleman agreed with my web-based analysis...

Coming Soon - The Skeptisode Guide

Okay, I'm finally getting around to typing up my skepitisode guides. Starting off I'm doing Season One of Paranormal State, Monster Quest and UFO Hunters. When I get them ready I'll be flipping my DNS around such that my actual homepage comes up with this URL and then you can click on my blog link there.

Of course you can always get to my blog via http://doctoratlantis.blogspot.com.

I'm posting my Paranormal State episode one video which is a multi-media adjunct to the associated skeptisode guide. That should go up today on my YouTube channel if I can get my rendering software to stop locking up.