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YouTube's Copyright Filter Is Crushing Video Critique:
In July, Harry "hbomberguy" Brewis shared a video on his popular YouTube channel called "RWBY Is Disappointing, And Here's Why." The two-and-half-hour video — a sharp, detailed critique of the cartoon RWBY — was the result of a lot of work by Brewis and his producer, Kat Lo. It also took an extra week and a half of editing and $1,000 in legal fees just to get and keep the video up on YouTube. All because of YouTube's copyright filter. And thanks to a new proposed law by Sen. Thom Tillis, Brewis' experience could become virtually everyone's.
YouTube's copyright filter is a labyrinthine nightmare called Content ID. Content ID works by scanning all the videos on YouTube and comparing them to a database of material submitted by copyright holders—often music labels and movie and TV studios—which have been given the ability to add things to the database by YouTube. Once Content ID matches a few seconds of an uploaded video to something in the database — regardless of context — a number of automatic penalties can be imposed. According to Google, most of the time the rights-holder chooses to just take the money generated by ads placed by Google on the video. If the original creator didn't want any ads put on their video, too bad. But in other cases, the rights-holder can make something much worse happen: They can make sure no one sees the video at all.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @06:30AM (1 child)
...that Google was not required by law to filter anything (not uploads, not search results), but they lusted for the MAFIAA's cock ("content") and decided to suck it to get those "lucrative content deals for YouTube+" (or however the original incarnation of that concept was called).
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @06:33AM
PS: My point is, Google delivered a proof of concept that such filtering is feasible, and all this lobbying bullshit in the US and EU is a consequence of Google delivering said PoC (it began in earnest shortly after Google began filtering search results at the behest of the MAFIAA).