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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: 4, Informative) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 24 2020, @02:14PM (1 child)
Incase you don't know, when reading YouTube's penalties language - whenever they say "may be suspended" what that translates to in practice is banned for life with no possibility of appeal.
If you are going to do anything resembling copyright questionable activity on YouTube, be sure to use a throw away account.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by fakefuck39 on Friday December 25 2020, @01:42AM
if you have a google account or do anything with google, it is by default a throwaway account. google is only good for creating temporary email addresses to order shit online. they are a useless subpar service in all parts of their business otherwise. this is because there is zero customer service or support. they are not a real business, they don't have customers. they have 15min of fame, like yahoo did one time. yes, this includes their cloud platform. want a server to test/trash and play with - that's what gcp is for. want to run production or dev? that's aws and azure. and boy, as someone who sells solutions that run in cloud, i gotta say this: google has lost tens of millions of dollars because of me. not because i'm out to get them - because they don't have an offering i can propose to a customer.