It's barely been a day since PLoS ONE published the article Discovery of the Largest Orbweaving Spider Species: The Evolution of Gigantism in Nephila when a video appeared on YouTube mashing up images and text from the press release:
Of course, as this is Open Access, nobody needs to worry about copyright and stuff....though a direct link to the paper would have been nice (or, considering the infamous YouTube commenters, perhaps better not!).
See the related blog post as well.
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We frequently use video clips on this site, many, but not all, from YouTube. To say YouTube has revolutionized web video content would be accurate, neither an understatement nor an exaggeration. The amount of material uploaded to YouTube is staggering.
YouTube Usage Decoded:
YouTube, the open-source video upload site, is as popular as ever following its buyout from Google.
This is insane: YouTube has become an overzealous nanny, protecting kooks from offense, now banning the eminently respectable JREF.
Also see this linked discussion over at FriendFeed:- http://ff.im/ajoU6
Having contacted the maker of the video, there IS now a link to the PLoS ONE Manu from that page on YouTube.
It's also worth noting that this Manu has now been accessed over 36,000 times already !!