while setting aside the genuineness of the problem, it was a rather poor decision on the dev's part. there was no need to rub it in the faces. if they were so unawares of what they were doing, then it makes me wonder what other facets they were playing fast and loose with. when making a thing that you know is going to cause ripples, then it just seems much smarter to avoid handing someone else the rocks to cause the ripples.

Could you show me where it was in the documentation? My understanding was copyrighted videos were only referenced in the unit tests, and only then because they needed special handling, the code for which couldn't be tested against a "regular" video.