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

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

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Post by amatecha »

icebraining wrote: post #12
amatecha wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, do you have any summary of what process you take to back up channels? I've considered the same in the past, but found that there are a lot of crappy/sketchy plugins, and not too many legit/decent ones that actually get the highest quality copy of the content.

youtube-dl is great for this, you can run it periodically against a channel and only download new videos. See the --download-archive option. Using "-f best" will fetch the highest quality format, but you can be more specific with filters like "-f best[filesize<50M]".

Really! I had no clue about this one (it has been a while since I searched around for such a thing).. that's great! Thanks for the tip, I'll check it out.

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

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Post by reificator »

jedberg wrote: post #18

I saw a great "joke" the other day. It said, "If Shazam or Siri can't identify a song for you, make a quick video and upload it to YouTube. Within a few seconds you'll get a copyright takedown telling you the name of the song".

I've seen nature videos where there's no sound but the birds chirping, and YouTube is still able to hear someone playing All-Star on Mars and flag the video. It's really incredible tech.

EDIT: The article actually mentions some similar examples: http://c4sif.org/2012/02/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copy...

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Post by toomuchtodo »

walterbell wrote: post #15
icebraining wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

youtube-dl is great for this, you can run it periodically against a channel and only download new videos. See the --download-archive option. Using "-f best" will fetch the highest quality format, but you can be more specific with filters like "-f best[filesize<50M]".

Recommended storage device and disk drives?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-serv... ; it's what I use to keep anything in cold storage that can't immediately go into the Internet Archive or that they're unable to dark after I upload.

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

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Post by jedberg »

reificator wrote: post #22
jedberg wrote: post #18

I saw a great "joke" the other day. It said, "If Shazam or Siri can't identify a song for you, make a quick video and upload it to YouTube. Within a few seconds you'll get a copyright takedown telling you the name of the song".

I've seen nature videos where there's no sound but the birds chirping, and YouTube is still able to hear someone playing All-Star on Mars and flag the video. It's really incredible tech. EDIT: The article actually mentions some similar examples: http://c4sif.org/2012/02/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copy...

I know the guy who created ContentID. He's a good guy and only had good intentions, namely to keep YouTube in business by identifying legit copyright issues. At the time, a human had to review all the claims.

This is a good example of how AI can go bad.

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

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Post by shittyadmin »

robotmlg wrote: post #17
shittyadmin wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think a big chunk of the problem now is that when people want to watch regularly released video content from internet creators they reach to YouTube, there's no integration of subscriptions across sites. You'd basically have to scrape video feeds from youtube to compete in this way.

If only there were some way to Syndicate website updates to a centralized reader in a Really Simple way...

Seriously though, I dream of a world in which all apps had a "subscribe on your news reader" button which could open an RSS client, maybe something implemented by mobile OS providers so it's easy for new users but overridable by users like the browser or calling apps would be ideal.

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

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Post by reificator »

jedberg wrote: post #25
reificator wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've seen nature videos where there's no sound but the birds chirping, and YouTube is still able to hear someone playing All-Star on Mars and flag the video. It's really incredible tech. EDIT: The article actually mentions some similar examples: http://c4sif.org/2012/02/youtube-identifies-birdsong-as-copy...

I know the guy who created ContentID. He's a good guy and only had good intentions, namely to keep YouTube in business by identifying legit copyright issues. At the time, a human had to review all the claims. This is a good example of how AI can go bad.

I'm not demonizing the people making it, or even necessarily the people demanding it be made.

The DMCA was the beginning of the end of a free and open internet, and now it's accelerating. I just hope the next generation understands what they're missing under the spectre of copyright law.

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

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Post by tclancy »

stevehawk wrote: post #16
ausjke wrote: post #8

google is dominated in search and youtube, both especially the latter, need a competitor, kind of burger-king to MacDonald

Is that the place with the Golden Arcs and the BigMic?

You're thinking of McDowell's.
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