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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 24 2020, @11:44AM (1 child)
I stopped buying if the proceeds go to the MPAA or RIAA when Sony infected work PCs via Celine Deon CDs and I discovered it'dbe multiple felonies if I cleaned up the infection blocking our software.
I do buy anytime I can purchase directly from the artist still.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by fakefuck39 on Friday December 25 2020, @02:02AM
hol-up, all i remember is the rootkit which they put on one of the CDs I bought, which didn't install because I had autorun disabled. what I was pissed about was they used parity bits for that data, and that makes the CD not play as well when scratched, due to lack of error correction. but the important thing was it was perfectly legal to remove their rootkit, and they were even forced by the courts to release an automated tool to do so.
i do agree with you however on purchasing directly from the artist - that is a solid way to go. 90% of what I listen to is french pop stuff, dating back from the 40's till now. Half of that is ye-ye. those artists are either dead, or the current ones are part of a big label. so literally no one to give my money to. the rest is russian/korean/spanish also pop stuff, and that's all big production companies. i do love me some danger mouse though - and would go pay for it. it was just easier to type "discography" into the pirate bay and not worry about it - took 30s as opposed to 10 minutes making a purchase on his site.
funny thing is, if there was a service that just let me buy some m4a for a quarter, and have a catalog of all the songs out there, in one place, they'd have a thousand bucks from me every year, because it wouldn't be worth the hassle. but that doesn't exist.