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It seems a perfectly consistent criticism to me. Rather than do their due diligence, Google threw the baby out with the bathwater by shutting down the whole pro
by jarcane 11y ago
It seems a perfectly consistent criticism to me. Rather than do their due diligence, Google threw the baby out with the bathwater by shutting down the whole program.
Sadly that is unsurprising in a tech world that so often likes to pretend it's powerless to police its own content.
- DanBC 11y agoIf Google (very many smart people, massive amounts of data, massive amounts of processing) can't do it then it seems like it could be a hard problem. The abuse of ContentID on YouTube, or auto-generated DMCA requests, show that letting content owners report stuff doesn't work particularly well at scale.
- jarcane 11y ago"Hard"? Or just "expensive" and "not easily automated away"? Because there's a difference. In this case though, I struggle even to see how that applies. The examples given are literally cases of identical text content between pirated and real works. We've had text figured out for a while now, it's not like it'd take image recognition software to see that the diff between the two books literally amounts to two words for the bogus author's name.
- hahainternet 11y agoDoes it seem feasible to you to have every single published book checked against every other single published book and then to hire a whole department to handle disputes? As the other commenter has mentioned, see how well that worked out for Youtube? People all over the Internet blame Google for the abuse of process that goes, ignoring the fact they have no choice in the matter.