Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Google gets roasted by the press no matter what it does.
YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've always felt like false assertion of copyright should cause the loss of copyright. Seems like a fair balance for me. And before someone gets on me...I realize that these are automated filters that are rarely asserted by the actual copyright holder.
> I've always felt like false assertion of copyright should cause the loss of copyright. Seems like a fair balance for me. I don’t understand. I put out a takedown request for something I don’t have the copyrights to and as a result the real copyright holder loses their copyright? How is that fair?
I hold copyright on the song "I OWN THE COPYRIGHT ON THIS SONG"
You use my song in a fair use way
I claim you are infringing my copyright
you challenge, I fail to prove my case
I lose copyright on the song and it enters the public domain.
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#163I 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".
Honest question: do you guys and gals think YouTube is really able (does it even try ?) to identify the songs that Shazam or Siri can not identify - at all? I presume that if a song is unidentifiable for Shazam (or another service like it), then it's not popular and "important" enough on YouTube too so it doesn't get caught OR it's a folk song from a non-Western country. It's highly probable that you can get the name…
I've actually tried this with popular western songs. The difference seems to be that YouTube is better at identifying songs with a lot of background noise. Shazam/Siri/Google need to have cleaner audio to be successful (I'm not sure why the Google assistant doesn't use the same tech as YouTube, but it doesn't seem to).
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very annoyingly youtube-dl refuses to support bitchute for reasons that aren't exactly clear: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/14052 If I can't get data off bitchute easily using de facto standard tools (I get that I could use a bittorrent client, but that's beyond the point), I have little interest in putting data on it.
It's open-source so... just fork it. (I know you're not a developer, but this is a perfect use-case for forking and continuing.)
Easier to just not put anything worthwhile on bitchute to be frank. youtube-dl needs constant vigalent updates to keep it working, maintaining a fork of it is a serious long-term commitment.
Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've always felt like false assertion of copyright should cause the loss of copyright. Seems like a fair balance for me. I don’t understand. I put out a takedown request for something I don’t have the copyrights to and as a result the real copyright holder loses their copyright? How is that fair?
I hold copyright on the song "I OWN THE COPYRIGHT ON THIS SONG" You use my song in a fair use way I claim you are infringing my copyright you challenge, I fail to prove my case I lose copyright on the song and it enters the public domain.
No, that's not what's being argued will happen.
I own the copyright on the song X.
Person A uses the song X in a fair use way.
Person B claims A is infringing.
Person A challenges and wins.
Then I lose my copyright, without any involvement?
Re: YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More
#166Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Google gets roasted by the press no matter what it does.
They are blocking original educational content from everybody, including members of the organizations producing that content. Seems perfectly reasonable to criticize such a mistake on its own merit, independent of whatever other criticisms you are referring to.
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#167As you might know, this is related to the disastrous EU copyright reform directive proposal that would mandate such filters put in place everywhere. Please don't be complacent, it's very important to do something about this. At risk of repeating my comment[0] from 3 days ago, I'd like to appeal to you to contact the MEPs that will vote on Wednesday in the EU's JURI committee. This was the first time I called politici…
That might help, however, for some reason I don't understand, this proposal hasn't created an outrage similar to the one we had seen before ACTA. EU "wisely" has chosen voting time to be in the middle of FIFA Soccer World Cup, so many people are just sitting watching matches. This is also almost the beginning of the holiday season and many people are just relaxing, travelling, etc. Apparently someone really needs tha…
SOPA / ACTA happened in parallel with FBI shutting down Megavideo - a place where a lot of "illicit" streaming services offloaded the content to. Basically, a lot of people lost the free TV they were used to. The events were unrelated, but I remember them being widely seen by regular people as the shape of things to come.
Take away people's TV for some bullshit reason again, and they'll go to the streets.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
I hold copyright on the song "I OWN THE COPYRIGHT ON THIS SONG" You use my song in a fair use way I claim you are infringing my copyright you challenge, I fail to prove my case I lose copyright on the song and it enters the public domain.
No, that's not what's being argued will happen. I own the copyright on the song X. Person A uses the song X in a fair use way. Person B claims A is infringing. Person A challenges and wins. Then I lose my copyright, without any involvement?
You are replying to the person who proposed the “lose copyright” idea.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a lot of fan made instrumentals out there(of astounding quality) that I've been archiving for fear of losing forever. I learned my lesson after Nintendo went berzerk and requested takedowns for gameplay videos and walkthroughs; smashrockgroin's series for Goldeneye 64 was both funny and informative when playing that game, but now those videos are gone forever. I've vowed never to buy a Nintendo product again…
I learned my lesson after Nintendo went berzerk and requested takedowns for gameplay videos and walkthroughs Going after pirates and such I can sort of understand, but people enjoying your product (and obviously helping to promote it)? WTF. It reminds me of the complete opposite of this old meme: http://lurkmore.so/images/9/94/360_Kid.jpg
> but people enjoying your product (and obviously helping to promote it)? WTF.
The usual rationale is that walkthroughs / let's play videos show enough of the game that people may opt to just watch the video, instead of playing the game itself.
I can sort of understand this position when it comes to videos that e.g. show the entire single-player campaign with zero commentary. But I'm not convinced that people opting for such videos would have bought the game if the walkthroughs were not available.
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#170I know this is just filtering for now, but I've been backing up entire channels for fear they'll one day disappear because global policy or legacy media conglomerates won't allow for it. I imagine the "you" in YouTube will be mostly gone in the next decade. The writing's on the wall.
Another reason to backup HD Youtube videos is that they'll "demote" them to SD if they don't get enough views.
I've never heard or seen that. Seems weird as well. Source?