I'm Baa-aack!

Today I received a letter from Viacom revoking the take down of my video "Gathering Storm Spoof," and the reinstating of my account. After many e-mails sent to their copyright team and counter notice group, they admitted their mistake and have issued a retraction of the claim against me. The explanation they gave me was "We thought your video was a segment from the Colbert Report." I'm not sure if that's more of a testament to our professional film making or to the incompetence of the person issuing the takedowns that day :D I'm fairly certain that whoever decided my video was infringing did not so much as even click on my video before deciding the fate of my entire account. Had they even done that they would have at least been able to notice that our video was posted nearly a week before Stephen Colbert even spoofed it on his show. hmmm..
I'm so glad to have my account back, but one thing that is really annoying is that if you've ever favorited one of my videos, they've been forever erased from your favorites. So basically the even though "Blue Hair" hair had been favorite by almost 3,000 people, it is now down to ZERO favorites. Wahwahh. I'm at least thankful that I can see some of these videos again. I thought they were lost forever.
Here's a vid I made right after I read the e-mail. It's kind of dramatic because I was in a mixed flurry of anger towards the incompetence of someone at Viacom-slash-overjoyed by getting my account back!