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There were recently a few incidents like that. Like after the Video Game Awards... there was a video that was a "world premiere" trailer of a game, and it was uploaded to Youtube after the show by the makers of the game and they were forced to take it down because the awards show or the company sponsoring it claimed copyright to it. I forget all the details.
But Activision, a well known game company, is getting in on this. They have been trying to take down video content of MW3 on youtube so that you have to pay a premium to get videos of game content. They've even offers to pay MW3 game gurus to stop uploading to youtube and provide content to their premium site. The flaws with this is that is lessens exposure to the game to draw in customers. Players who are having a hard time moving forward in the game and improving won't be able to and may lose interest in the game. Are they going to be able to do this for written guides?
And then Universal Music had Youtube take down a video of artists speaking up against SOPA because it had artists who were under the UMG label in it. They also claimed that they had a deal with Youtube that they could have any video removed. They did not own copyright but they had it removed like nothing (though its been placed back on the site since). This was a clear attempt to prevent SOPA awareness from spreading.
It's crap like this that make people turn against and lose faith in their government (not like we had much left). It may be coincidence but it sure does look like these corporations and our government are getting comfy and are pretty sure this bill is going to pass. Conspiracy and corruption maybe?
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