Now, a lot of you are probably still wondering, why WAS season three only thirteen episodes? And why has Hasbro been pulling the episodes from youtube, and taking down a ton of fanworks with them? What’s going ON?!
From what information I’ve been able to gather, the most likely answer is that Hasbro is preparing MLP for syndication. What this means is that Hasbro will start selling broadcast rights to other networks, so that they can air the show. 65 episodes is the industry standard package size for selling rights to kids’ shows, and after season three, MLP now has that many episodes, making it a clean three-season package.
If this is why season three was thirteen episodes, it would also explain the takedowns. You may have heard the rumor that Hasbro was trying to sell the show’s broadcast rights to China, but that the Chinese networks had said that they wouldn’t pay for what could be had for free online. I’ve still never seen the source of this rumor, and it sounds pretty batty to begin with, but if you replace “China” with something like “Cartoon Network,” it’s a very reasonable idea. Why would a network want to pay to air reruns of a show which are easily available on youtube? Considering that the majority of the blocked videos are blocked solely in the United States, this makes way more sense than the whole China explanation.
The brony stuff on youtube is just caught in the crossfire. The mechanism youtube uses to remove copyright material is automated, and removes whatever it detects as infringement. Fair Use and the definition of derivative works is too unclear and youtube doesn’t have the time or interest in arguing with it. It doesn’t particularly matter to them that the content is gone if it means the problem is off of their hands. More than being a problem with Hasbro or youtube, this is a problem with the shitty, inefficient modern copyright laws.
번역:
자 이제, 여러분은 아마 많이 아직도 궁금하실 겁니다, 왜 시즌3은 에피소드 13개밖에 없나 구요?
그리고 왜 하스브로는 유튜브에서 에피소드를 차단하고 여러가지 팬작들도 차단하나구요? 도대체 무슨 일이야?!