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YouTube Mutes Copyrighted Videos

http://mashable.com/2009/01/15/youtube-video-muting/

YouTube has already started muting videos containing copyrighted materials. What does this mean for the Internet?!! Mashable runs through the horrors to-come if this continues. PLEASE, by God, save the lipdubs!

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