Videos of Apple's Snow Leopard taken off YouTube

Apple on Tuesday used a copyright infringement claim to have seven videos, showing features of Snow Leopard removed from YouTube.

As it does with all of its unreleased products, Apple has managed to keep a pretty tight lid on the upcoming version of Mac OS X, code-named Snow Leopard. However, on Monday, at least seven videos were posted to the popular YouTube video service.

The videos showed a number of features, including Stacks, QuickTime, the Dock, the Snow Leopard Welcome Movie, QuickLook, and the Finder Preferences.

Six of the seven videos on Tuesday say they have been removed by the user. One video says it "is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Apple, Inc."

It's not a big surprise that the videos were removed. Developers must sign a nondisclosure agreement, or NDA, before they even get access to Snow Leopard and agree that they will not reveal details of the operating system publicly.

YouTube's policy is very clear too. The company's copyright policy is available from its Web site:

YouTube respects the rights of copyright holders and publishers, and requires all users to confirm they own the copyright or have permission from the copyright holder to upload content. We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and other applicable copyright laws, and promptly remove content when properly notified. Repeat infringers' videos are removed, and their accounts are terminated and permanently blocked from using YouTube.

While we would all like to see some more in-depth features of Snow Leopard, it looks like we'll have to wait until Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, where Apple is expected to show the operating system during the keynote address.

[xbrando7]

Ugh!!! I tried to watch these when I heard about them on Apple Insider, only to find out that they had been pulled. Oh well, I'm sure or curiosities will be answered at WWDC.

[karpenterskids]

Bummer!
I'd really like to see what new features Snow Leopard may or may not have...guess I'll just have to wait, though.

[eBob1]

Bah, just more silliness from the Turtlenecked One. I simply don't care.

[ckh1272]

Then why waste your time reading about something you don't care about?? Sheez!!

[thehog2]

Obviously cared enough to write a comment though....

[kcotham]

Quit trolling. Jeesh

[dragonbite]

It's a media "leak" to gain public interest.

[Seaspray0]

Methinks apple is trying to make one big splash on the release rather than alot of ripples leading up to it.. for marketing reasons.

[tektaktyks]

oh f apple,why people care for overpriced,phony company?Don't get me wrong,i dont like microsoft,but they don't try to pretend they r cool.

[ewelch]

Obviously they have gotten to you. For crying out loud, don't read the stories and your blood pressure will no doubt drop to lower levels - and that has to be a good thing.

[sciontcya]

As they would indeed HAVE to pretend.
They're not cool, and even playing off of not being cool doesn't work.
Toss in the towel, MS is truly and embarrassment.

[myles taylor]

interesting. Given that Apple said they weren't going to add a whole lot of new features I'm not expecting a lot. I'm hoping for added stability and speed. I'll be pleasantly surprised by any new features. I'm guessing that even if it doesn't have it on the surface, touch screen support will be hidden somewhere in there.

[thehog2]

Mr.Dee -- You obviously have some deep seated need to lash out and tear down everything. Are you a happy person? Were you the bully in school who always tried to play the big shot? Or were you the tormented type who lashed out at others weaker than you as a form of compensation and justification? In any case, your posts are apathetic.

[myles taylor]

Excuse me?

[thehog2]

@myles taylor
Sorry Myles, the screen refreshed and I clicked the wrong reply to this comment link. This is directed to Mr Dee...

[YankeePoodle]

Who needs a preview or demo. Lord Steve Jobs order to buy new stuff will be obliged immediately. Snow Leopard is awesome PERIOD. Poor Microsoft releases RC for about 9 months before release, what a pathetic company? We dont need previews RCs or anything. We salute the great chief!!!

[Mr. Dee]

Snow Leopard will be stuck with 25 million Paris Hilton Collection systems, while over 1 billion PC users will be benefiting from Windows 7.

[YankeePoodle]

Mr.Dee

you r missing the point

[kcotham]

@Mr. Dee

You are such a tool. "Paris Hilton Collection systems"?! Give me a break.

[flickrz]

Hardly a surprise given how close they are. Besides, since the demo wasn't done by Lord Steve Jobs; it hardly would have been worth watching. pun intended.

[Angmarr]

so...ummm... this is a news article about something that doesn't exist!?!?

I hate when people do that "hey check this out man, oh but its not there anymore ..wth"!!!

[bobmarleypeople]

By the way, the welcome movie video was just the Leopard one as Apple either haven't put it in yet, or aren't making one. It's not likely to be in any pre-release version at the very least, though I hope that they'll include a higher quality video this time so it fills the screen instead of being in the middle of the screen.

[CreativeMalcolm]

Most of SL's features that we know of are under the hood, things won't look different they'll just work better mainly on higher end machines. Which is cool though I'm hoping Apple includes a few wiz bang tweaks and extends a few features enough to make it sellable to the people who won't understand what Grand Central does.

[goodspeed8701]

Well snow leopard is a joke from what i have seen so far

[ewelch]

Which means you haven't seen squat.

[goodspeed8701]

@ ewelch You dont have to attack my post. I saw it and if its ms that did something like that you will bash them.

[Jonnygthedrummer]

how could u have seen it? how do u know its the real thing?

[goodspeed8701]

It was on you tube... i saw it. and they are happy to include "substitutions" something that windows has for 10 years now and when they finally succeed the will claim microsoft steal that feature from them. thats how they stole spotlight from the beta of longhorn and also widget.

[shycelticwitch]

goodspeed... get a life. You don't seem to have one at the moment.

[kojacked]

@shycelticwitch:

Wow! You really added to the discussion here. Goodspeed backed up his claim and that's all you got?

[ewelch]

@goodspeed8701 It's not an attack. I'm stating a fact. To call Snow Leopard a joke (or any other serious operating system) after watching a few video captures is pretty much trolling.

[ewelch]

@ shycelticwitchL You might call that backing his claims up, but it's nonsense. Text Substitution is cool and all for über nerds, but I doubt Apple will claim to have invented it.

And his ludicrous claim of stealing Spotlight from Longhron when even Windows 7 doesn't have it is laughable, not to mention Widgets were actually in Mac OS way back in the pre-OS X era in the 90s, prove he doesn't know what he's talking bout. Spotlight is a way to index a whole hard drive. Hardly a Microsoft invention. It's probably why they hired the file system guy from BeOS. Microsoft couldn't make their quick search work right in Vista.

[kcotham]

Snow Leopard is not about adding new features so much as refining existing ones and slimming up the code base. It's about improving Leopard and shifting to a full 64 bit code base. You will see some new features but not anything huge.

Snow Leopard is to Leopard what Windows 7 is to Visa.

[MrZook]

meh.

[nrgefx]

According to these videos, it sounds like Apples newest OS will accomplish as much as a service pack would do to a Windows Operating System.

[waterskier44]

Do service packs to Windows OS's double the speed? Jeez