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Well they added “Opening is a video by Chris Pirillo.” to the bottom of video

Yep, it says that in the video description.

same!
my teachers say that anyone can just go on and edit it! and then im like you cant! lol
i feel u bro
and i try to explain that wen u edit it, it shows up but then when its refreshed its gone! cause it goes through this thingy…..ya

On the publishing website.
De clip aan het begin van Wiki’s Waarheid is van “techie” Chris Pirillo.

Translation (according to google translator)

The clip at the beginning of Wikis Truth is “techie” Chris Pirillo. Ga naar Pirillo’s live webcam

haha this “thingy” lmao

yeah teachers are so gay about wikipedia…….it pisses me off

I’m nobody, are you nobody too?

I don’t want to watch that video solely because of Chris not getting credit in the video itself. That is unprofessional and just plain rude.

Now i’m not getting any credit.Beccause i sent that e-mail hahaha. my name in the chat is: AD90

where can i find the said video?

youtube, type wikipedia

Watch the video, its worth watching. Relax and don’t be so Chris obsessed. He’s cool but that’s not a good reason to not watch it. He told you to.

i hate the way you say wikipedia.

I agree about Wikipedia being the future of information distribution. I absolutely love the site, and very rarely ever find a mistake in what someone has written. Also, a shame you didn’t get credit on that great video. That needs to change.

I know it’s not NEARLY the credit you deserve, but I noticed a lot of people commenting on the video on YouTube saying “Give Chris his credit!” and such, but you do have a small small credit. If you expand the information about the video, about half way down, at the very end of a long list of people in the video, it says Opening is a video by Chris Pirillo.
I don’t know if the owners of the video edited that after all the comments or not. Just thought I’d comment and let you know.

I took the time to watch this video when it was first put on YouTube and thought it was interesting that you didn’t have a credit in the video but I saw your name in the description and thought that was fine. Now that I think about it again I think they probably should have done something different.

Keep in mind there was another YouTube user in that video used without credit given.

I think that’s how people get mad about when some one piracy their work.

I really don’t think that what Wikipedia did is right.
If Chris(You) made the original video, YOU should get the credit.
If that happened to me, i would be really pissed off.

vpro made a documentary about people exchanging infos and eliminated the chatroom which shows that exchange firsthand… losers…

Yeah. Why was there no credit to the intellectual property of Lockergnome?

Of course, your video should have been left intact and it is a misrepresentation not to do so. The buried credit Andrew mentions above is not good enough.

As to Wikipedia, I could no longer live without it. The breadth of information is astonishing. On only one or two occasions have they failed to have a piece on even obscure items I’m searching for.

On the other hand, the depth of information in many items is too shallow to be useful, others are just plain wrong and many are shaded to show people and/or corporations in a better light than they deserve without providing opposing information.

But it is still the best starting place on the web. Ever heard of the “Wend people”? Me neither. But there was a page in Wikipedia that gave a good overview and all kinds of clues to follow up on in other ways.

Back to the video: it is so easy to provide credit in videos – voice over, lower thirds, a quick text slide with information – that there is no excuse for burying it. We are all long accustomed now to taking in a variety of information at once. When credit is missing, credibility is in question.

So…let me get this straight…you’re not getting credit ?

Man its funny how much he resembles a friend of mine.

Woah… I just went over to the vpro video and there are like 100 something comments all saying “Credit Chris Pirillo”

I added something to a Wikipedia! article referenceing an event that I was a witness to and Wikipedia! deleted the information. I guess they want things presented the way they want even if it leaves out events or in Chris’s case.. credit for his work.

I’m not totally Chris obsessed, well OK maybe a little ^_^. I will watch it, thanks for calming me down. LoL.

I agree with you Chris. It was you that produced the content, and even if they just put a label in the video that said something like Chris Pirillo, or Live.Pirillo.com that probably would have been enough. One more thing when I get upset I don’t scratch myself like Wicket does.

Hi Chris,

Sorry to hear (and see).

The company who put this together seems to identify themselves as “VPROinternational”. I suspect that they thought they could gain some sort of advantage by stealing your work instead of using it properly.

Instead, all that VPROinternational has received out of this devious little endeavor is bad publicity. (First you blogged about them…. then I named their company in this comment so that the world would know just who they are!)

Life is like that, isn’t it? Whenever people cut corners they always seem to think that they are getting ahead…. but it always comes back to bite them.

By the way, is that video property of Chris Pirillo or is it property of Ustream?

Thanks for sharing,
James Gia

P.S. You may want to change the links in your blog so that they open up in a new window. :O)

No problem :)

even if they just added a small line on the more info saying “opening video by Chris Pirillo” they would AT LEAST posted a link to his live stream or blog. i bet is just like Andrew commented earlier, they putted that in the last minute.

omg we get the point… stop talking you talk to much

Yes, they have added Chris’ name in the video description, but this seems like an afterthought. People aren’t going to read the long list to see who made the opening video. They should have referenced him by flashing his name briefly just like they did for the other people. Chris is being denied lots of new viewers because of this.

i feel that you should have gotten credit for your video.thats completely ridiculous that you did not! so they use your video and everything and have the nerve to not give you credit. i would be pissed. on the other hand being on there is almost credit in itself. just the thought that someone would have put you on there is a great compliment.

It is true that people today are using things without giving the original person credit for their ideas. it’s sad that this is what america is coming to

i have watched the video and i agree that you should have been mentioned..thats the least they could have done. This is ridiculous! ugghhh

i think also that Chris should get Credit for it, why the darn did they put in Chris if they weren’t planing to be fair, they might as well have removed chris video, that is almost like to invite your friends to help you move or remake a room only to shout at them : All done, now beat it.
where are their manners, didn’t they have mothers who learned they what is right and what is wrong. they got nerves

Don’t you get in trouble with your sponsors if people do that? They are covering your sponsors logos! That, and they are covering up chat. Sometimes I watch you videos just to read the chat, I have seen a lot of funny stuff in there.

Messed up! They didn’t even say who you are.

i usually dont trust or try to stay away from wiki, like you said to the extent of facts. however, for the sake of time i do use it for quick info on a subject. although the info is just as good there as it is here, which could be way off, credits should be given, so we know if it comes from a loyal source. then again, thats the motive of this knew age info ditribution website.

omg sooo…?

I think it is even worse for them becouse VPRO is an public tv station, this article was also on tv without any credit.

Agreed, crediting is so important. Has anyone e-mailed VPRO to see why they decided to credit the way they did? Crediting at the end of films is better than no credit at all. But I am sorry they were only able to excerpt your video and in the English version could not credit in the image.

One thing is that the original was broadcast with Dutch credits (in the image) and so the Youtube video may not be identical to the director’s original.

I think the film brings up a lot of interesting thoughts and it would be great to talk about those, too. Reasoning about what truth is/can be in the Age of Wikipedia. Good brain exercise, that.

Strangely enough, I actually became aware of you by reading the “Credit Chris!” comments on that documentary’s YouTube page. Those comments made me wonder who the hell you were, so I searched your name. Ever since then (24 hours ago), I’ve been hooked on your videos!