On May 1, when questioned about death clips being shared on the site, the firm told the BBC that its users had the right to depict the "world in which we live".
In Serbian, with English subtitles 1 hour 41 minutes; not rated Sex is the ultimate refuge from death in "Clip," a graphic and often disturbing story of Serbian teenagers in heat, on drugs and at odds with the world.
It also identified a shadowy market for the least savory fringes of mondo cinema, an appetite later satisfied by staged atrocities like "Cannibal Holocaust," a precursor to "The Blair Witch Project," and the "Faces of Death" series, clip compendiums of sundry fatalities ranging from the blatantly falsified to the apparently genuine.
In this "Death-Ray" clip, they talk about their mutual friend David Cross, including some light ribbing for his role in the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies.
After Jackson's death several months later, a clip of the entertainer singing "Speechless" was included in Michael Jackson's This Is It, a commercially successful documentary-concert film of the singer's rehearsals for his London concert series.
The initial diagnosis, in February 2002, was delivered by a doctor who detailed the physical losses to come and eventual death in a clipped, clinical monologue that ended with his handing Mr. MacDonald a box of tissues and walking out.
With Dykes, a grotesque reversal saw smartphone users engaging in the tragedy itself, goading a boy into jumping to his death, before uploading a clip for passive online consumption.
The group created a backmasked message for the 1995 recording of John Lennon's 1977 demo Free as a Bird: released as a studio version 15 years after his death, it featured a clip of Lennon saying "turned out nice again" at the end of the song.
Another clue to Mr. Williams's mind-set at his death came from a clipping from the newspaper The Observer that was found in his flat.
At the front desk of Cinecittà, the fabled film studio, clips from "Death in Venice" and "La Dolce Vita" flickered on a video monitor above the heads of receptionists.
