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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @11:10AM (5 children)
He's a republican, too. Guess he feels his party is strong enough he does not mind pissing off a lot of us.
This will come to mind again when I see republican senators standing behind podiums, thinking their message will be taken seriously, or if that head needs to also be muted.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @12:11PM (4 children)
Bill Clinton passed the DMCA. Obama and Hillary Clinton were pro TPP.
Also https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=20/12/22/2140223 [soylentnews.org]
looked like it was written by a democratic congress (though it was passed by the senate).
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @12:13PM
and let's not forget Disney and Hollywood in general mostly supports the democrats.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @12:21PM (2 children)
Also more information about the 2020 act can be found here
https://www.tillis.senate.gov/2020/12/tillis-releases-landmark-discussion-draft-to-reform-the-digital-millennium-copyright-act [senate.gov]
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 25 2020, @02:40AM (1 child)
Thanks to the Covid lockdowns it's more difficult for people to physically go out and protest like they used to so that we can spread pictures of all the protesters (you will never see large crowds of protesters in favor of these laws). I think politicians realize this and they are using this as an opportunity to pass laws that no one wants.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 25 2020, @02:38PM
And a good analogy would be what happened with the Hong Kong Kong protests when Covid hit. Protests stopped and China used the opportunity to get what they want.
This is a good opportunity for governments to pass laws that no one wants.