{"id":359367,"date":"2010-02-24T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5479150"},"modified":"2010-02-24T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T15:41:23","slug":"youtube-pulls-the-original-rickroll-video-spurring-inevitable-wave-of-protest-rickrolls-updated-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/359367","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Pulls the Original Rickroll Video, Spurring Inevitable Wave of Protest Rickrolls [Updated] [YouTube]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Really? Really Sony BMG<\/a>? After over 30 million views you just now decided to make YouTube pull Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up”<\/a> for a terms of use violation? If you were going to try to stop rickrolling, couldn’t you have at least done it a couple years ago? <\/p>\n

Do you know what’s going to happen now? People are going to be rickrolling other people as much as possible using illicit streams as a protest all day<\/em>. Thanks, assholes. Thanks. <\/p>\n

Update<\/strong>: Via Ken Fisher<\/a>, here’s why Sony BMG pulled the original video<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Update 2<\/strong>: It’s back, it was all a big mistake<\/a>. [Neowin<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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Really? Really Sony BMG? After over 30 million views you just now decided to make YouTube pull Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” for a terms of use violation? If you were going to try to stop rickrolling, couldn’t you have at least done it a couple years ago? Do you know what’s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}