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Get this: during a real news interview conducted by a real reporter in Second Life (a growing and popular virtual world) the interviewee ( a real person but appearing as an avatar) is attacked by a horde of giant penises (not real). Someone else captures the action and posts the video of the penile mobbing to YouTube.

The interviewee, Ailin Graef, gets very, very annoyed and threatens to sue YouTube. Today, CNET, which conducted the original interview, reported that YouTube has now complied with Ms. Graef's demands and has pulled the video down.
Last month, Anshe Chung Studios demanded that YouTube delete the recording, citing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which generally requires Web sites to remove material that infringes on copyright laws. The controversy stemmed from video taken during an interview with Anshe Chung, the virtual world's biggest land owner, conducted by CNET News.com in its Second Life bureau last month(Second life linden).

During the interview--which took place in a digital theater in front of
dozens of audience members' avatars--a group intent on sabotaging the
event attacked it with 15 minutes of animated penises and photographs
of Anshe Chung's real-life owner, Ailin Graef, digitally altered to
make her look like she was holding a giant penis.

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