Everyone does dumb stuff when they are fifteen...like filing fake DMCA takedowns

[mandy]

A Perth teenager has apologised to the ABC for pretending to represent the national broadcaster in demanding the removal of hundreds of video clips from the YouTube website.

The 15-year-old boy sent YouTube a signed form saying he represented the copyright owner, ABC Television, and that he wanted the footage, mostly from The Chaser's War on Everything, removed from the website...

The head of ABC-TV comedy Courtney Gibson said the teenager had been contacted by the ABC's lawyers and had since apologised...

full article: http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261144

[BellisimaJ.]

My parents would have killed me and buried me in the backyard!