Whoever uploaded Death Cab’s videos was clearly not authorized.  When Warner Music had it taken down, it left Death Cab’s website as blank.  This was pretty embarrasing for the band and I think that from now on the music label company will investigate the websites of their other band members before sending DMCA takedowns.

This isn’t the first time I have seen labels takedown music videos that negatively impact bands and movie producers.  I’ve seen Bollywood music videos taken down by record labels from the movie production companies that feature the songs in their movies.  And then there was the time when Jon Stewart mocked the parent company of Comedy Central two years ago for removing clips of The Daily Show from YouTube.