Above you'll see a few posts on the Home Depot's YouTube contest site (while it lasts) that are either being deleted or reference being deleted. There are many more, take my word for it. When it became exposed that Home Depot coached the winning video through at least FOUR changes to their video to conform with their contest rules, they set up a round-the-clock job for one or more staffers. Their task? To delete any message that they felt was "inconvenient" to their contest.
A post would go up, and within minutes, things would disappear. Night-time, weekends? No problem when it comes to covering their tracks. Home Depot stayed busy around the clock deleting messages. Fortunately, logs had been kept by multiple users that show the trail.
(LATE UPDATE: The Home Depot message board has been removed from YouTube, so don't bother trying to go there. Although we still have logs of all the messages for posterity. Also, the violations have been changed from FIVE to FOUR, since the "study room" shot was unchanged from the original shot, although the "study room" shot may still in fact be copyrighted)
(LATE UPDATE: The Home Depot message board has been removed from YouTube, so don't bother trying to go there. Although we still have logs of all the messages for posterity. Also, the violations have been changed from FIVE to FOUR, since the "study room" shot was unchanged from the original shot, although the "study room" shot may still in fact be copyrighted)
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