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YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 19 2018, @10:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the unintended-consequences-or-not dept.

canopic jug writes:

YouTube's ContentID system blocks videos alleged to infringe on copyright. Lately it has been coming down on a great many highly visible, legitimate videos. YouTube is apparently taking its time in resolving the problem.

Several popular YouTube accounts, including those belonging to 'MIT OpenCourseWare' and the 'Blender Foundation,' have had all their videos blocked. People who try to access the videos are informed that they are not available in their country, suggesting that YouTube's piracy filters have been triggered. It's unclear, however, who or what is to blame.

Source TorrentFreak : YouTube's Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More (Updated)

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by rob_on_earth on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:00AM

    by rob_on_earth (5485) on Wednesday June 20 2018, @08:00AM (#695508) Homepage

    I though the "you can run your videos ad free, for free" model was a bit too good to be true.

    But from YouTube POV if these channels are getting thousands of views a day then they are going to want a bite of the pie.

    I always wanted to know why some videos have a single advert and others can have 4+ even though they are the same length.

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