To tell the truth, I am a bit shocked to find this out. Since these videos were grabbed from my YouTube channel without my permission, never mind Marc and Jonathan's permission, I just want to go on record to say that I am deeply disturbed by their lack of concern regarding copyright.
I am not the original owner of the content of these videos, they were passed along to me by the FS community in an attempt to ignite recognition and support for this activity. In fact, I'm not sure if
anyone really knows who actually owns the content of these clips, but to the best of my knowledge, while they are on my YouTube channel they are not supposed to be used without my permission. The blatant double-standard used by the entertainment industry absolutely disgusts me. If the shoe were on the other foot and I were to grab taped segments of the Colbert Report and put them on my YouTube channel, they would be removed instantly and I might be facing criminal charges for copyright infringement.
I've a good mind to pull all of the videos, but since this coverage will likely give a huge shot in the arm to FS, I'll keep them up for now. As it stands, more people have now seen FS canoeing in the last three weeks than have probably seen all of canoeing in all of recorded history (who really watches Olympic canoeing?) Marc Ornstein has been viewed by over 300,000 viewers on my YouTube channel alone. With Colbert stealing and airing the stuff (and Daniel Tosh of Tosh.0 likely to follow), Marc will be seen by tens of millions of viewers. All I'm getting out of it is the pleasure of deleting hundreds of YouTube response e-mails every day.
Marc... you owe me a free DogPaddle FS paddle.
Also, I think it's about time to get Al out of detox and back into finishing those boats. I have over 300 vacuum-infused composite solo FS hulls awaiting gunwales and thwarts.
