NBC, a.k.a. “The Man”, is holding me down

I just got an email today regarding a video I had up on Youtube.  The video was of the band Third Day playing a song on Leno several months ago.  That was it, just a chance for people to see the performance if they had missed it when it originally was broadcast.

Fast forward today.  I received this in my inbox:

Dear adamriggins5108,

Your video “Third Day Live on The Tonight Show 7.29.2008″ has been identified by YouTube’s Content Identification program as containing copyrighted content which NBC Universal claims is theirs.

Your video is no longer available because NBC Universal has chosen to block it.

That’s so lame!  What do you think?  Is NBC being just a little uptight, or are they acting reasonably?

By the way, here is that video on Vimeo, just to stick it back to the man.


Third Day live on the Tonight Show 7.29.2008 from adam riggins on Vimeo.

Video of Third Day live on Leno

In case you missed it, here is Third Day (my favorite band for the last 13 years or so) live on The Tonight Show on July 29th.  Also, below the embedded video is a link to download it to your computer/iPod/iPhone.  Enjoy!


YouTube Version:

Download the iPod/iPhone Version (720×400)

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