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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/05/apple_stand_copyright_lockdown/
Apple's focus on privacy, if you're not in China that is, now extends to its events, at least the embarrassing moments.
The techno-glam-gear and services giant has demanded the removal of YouTube-hosted video excerpts of its live-streamed developer conference keynote. The offending clips captured crowd discontent – some booing and mostly gasping and groaning – on Monday over the $999 price tag of the Pro Stand for Apple's forthcoming Pro Display XDR.
One such video, titled "WWDC 2019 Pro Stand Crowd Reaction," received 895,728 views prior to its takedown on copyright infringement grounds, a move that's presumably a result of it being embedded in our coverage of the pricey monitor accessory.
The video will no longer play, and YouTube offers the following explanation:
Video unavailable
This video contains content from Apple, who has blocked it on copyright grounds.
The Register asked Apple for an explanation, but the company's communications team has not been communicative. Interestingly, there are many other videos of the event, shared on YouTube and Twitter, that weren't taken down presumably because they didn't include any embarrassing mocking of the pointlessly expensive monitor stand.