Mock-rock Video Man Closed Down By Youtube....

A Finnish man who mocked rockers Slash, Metallica and Steve Vai by posting poorly dubbed re-recordings over actual footage of them online has been accused of copyright infringement.Guitarist Santeri Ojala had his YouTube.com account closed down following a series of complaints about the videos which poke fun at his musical heroes.Ojala is disappointed the stars he mocked took his homemade recordings seriously - insisting he never meant to cause offence.He says, "In a nutshell, YouTube yanked the plug after someone pushed the 'complain here' button. For some reason, a couple of artists - or rather their management - have complained to YouTube about the videos and had them taken down."The reasons are unclear to me because I haven't directly heard from the artist that had their videos removed."

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