Sick Dog Fights ‘Showcased’ on Youtube
Published on February 24, 2008 by Ryan O'Meara · 2 CommentsInternet video sharing website, Youtube is fighting a battle against sick web users who are uploading grainy mobile phone footage of organised dog fights.
The site, which is owned by search engine giant Google, has come in for criticism in the past months for violating copyright laws by allowing broadcasting material to which the rights were not obtained.
Youtube encourages its users to report inappropriate or offensive material, but many of the people uploading the dog fighting footage are able to outsmart the system, by using codenames so that only people in the know can find the footage.
K9 Magazine discovered one sick video of a Rottweiler and a Pit Bull Terrier fighting, whilst dog fight fans posted comments below. Other videos show dogs pitted against other animals, one even showed a Dogo Argentino mauling an adult Puma.
Youtube has the power to control its content. When threatened by Viacom, the owners of MTV, over use of their content, Youtube was able to remove all offending clips. It is hoped that the owners of the site, which is the perfect platform for interest in dog fighting to grow and fuel further cruelty towards the dogs, will remove the opportunity by monitoring the material that is placed on its site.
Sadly, there are some people who derive pleasure from watching dog fights. And whilst the material is out there, as easy to access as a keyword search on the world’s largest video site, it will perpetuate this sick, barbaric pastime. Please – if you discover, intentionally or otherwise, disgusting dog fighting videos on Youtube, register a complaint and help put an end to this public endorsement of sick, violent dog fight videos.
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Im suprised there hasnt been an influx of vidoes showing hunting mammals with dogs, after the ban in the uk.
most dog fight videos a eddited to show the cruelty, even panoramas documentry was heavily sugar coated
I am in shock that we are allowing these poor helpless animals to be tortured in this way, are people to scared to stand up to these people that are mean to these animals, all we need to do is start neighborhood watches for animals across the world and if everyone would do this together we could stop the violence of these animals and probably people as well. Most of these people as high as hell or else I do not believe that anyone in there right mind could do this. What does our tax dollars go for? Maybe we need someone in Washington DC to fight for our animals as well as our poor people. We are definitely living in the end if times and I am not sure how much more torture this world can stand. If I am not mistaken all of this is suppose to be happening before our Lord Jesus Christ returns for us and then if these people who are doing these terrible things still are they certainly will be Tortured Forever and Ever!!! Just Pray!!! Maybe you Tube will be shut down
"Of all the creatures, man is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot."–Mark Twain
there are alot of dog fighting videos on youtube. I have tried several times to complain, and they only want me to flag the video and think that is enough. I found them as an accident trying to get my kitty to be scared of dogs but that is not want i was expecting
I am a bit of a youtube addict, and I luv lookin at pitty and anti bsl type vids, but I have come to learn that titles can be abit of a con, eg there was a vid titled "190lb man eating pit bull mauls dog", the video showed a apbt a aussie sheppard and a mutt playing together, and the description contained a load of info on the apbt, and the tittle was just to draw ignorant to it.