What happened to Youtube.com?

[Ehelldame]

Good heavens, nearly 95% of the bookmarked videos I had collected are suddenly "File Not Found". 

[FoxPaws]

They've managed to tick off all the wrong people - copyright issues. This is one article about it. If you Google YouTube and then hit News, there's a lot more.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/09/technology/media_youtube/?postversion=2007020912

[Ehelldame]

I can understand the music videos being removed ..and they do have an message indicating they have been removed at Viacom's request or for some copyright reason.   But most of what I had saved were people's personal videos of either their children or their own performances in clogging and hula and when I click on the URLs I'd saved, I get a "File Not Found" error message. 

ETA:  Grrr....all the 2007 Mummers Parade videos made by parade viewers are "File Not Found" too.  Someone needs to get a grip because "Oh dem golden slippers" is probably in the public domain. 

Wait a minute...even a cute video of a new father changing his infant daughter's diaper is "File Not Found".  That one had no music to speak of.    Can anyone else access this video?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3pFjcpq8Ls&NR

Or this one?  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFDmu94G9do&NR

[Ehelldame]

Ooops, never mind.  Glitch on my end.

[Bijou]

Good heavens, nearly 95% of the bookmarked videos I had collected are suddenly "File Not Found". 

I hope they didn't remove that adorable Hahaha video of the baby laughing.  I loved to watch that.

[Jaywalker]

my tabs won't work either -- and it sort of surprised me because some of them were clearly public domain -- I found that if I searched for them on youtube, they WERE there

I think they may have disabled old codes or bookmarks when they enacted the copyright limits, which caught up things that are actually still there -- so see if you can research for your favorites and re-bookmark

[Ehelldame]

I refreshed my browser and that worked.  Now all my Youtube bookmarks has a YouTube logo next to it.  Even the Hasselhoff "Hooked on a feeling" video is still there....for now.