Das Rickrollmeme wurde mittels Copyright gestoppt:
Taking down a five-year-old video with tens of millions of views is strange enough, but it is far from clear why AVG Technologies – the people behind AVG Anti-Virus – would want to do so at all.
Techdirt schreibt darüber, dass bereits das populäre originale Rickroll-Video auf diese Art den Weg ins digitale Nirvana gefunden hat und stellt zum aktuellen Fall eine wichtige Frage:
but just the fact that random third parties seem to be able to take down super popular videos raises serious questions about why we've set things up to work this way.