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I got a take down notice from a band last year. I had posted videos of my progress on a game I was working on wherein I used an air-raid siren I got from the pu

I got a take down notice from a band last year. I had posted videos of my progress on a game I was working on wherein I used an air-raid siren I got from the public domain. The band had a song called Air Raid that used the same public domain sound. It was obviously not a violation of any of their music. It took me three weeks to get that cleared up. It's too easy for people to abuse this. Guilty until proven innocent is a terrible platform strategy.

dragontamer 11y ago
The DMCA law in 1996 was written before youtube even existed. The assumption at the time was that people controlled all the contents of their website. Then web services were invented, and now the law doesn't match up with how people typically use the internet. The laws need to be updated, and to do so we will have to fight against the Hollywood political lobby. You see, the DMCA is a perfectly acceptable law if you were hosting videos on your own server. YOU would get the DMCA notice, and then you can decide whether or not you want to be held liable in court. Today, you put your video on Youtube. Therefore: Youtube gets a DMCA notice, and Youtube administrators need to make the decision whether or not to go to court about the issue. The admins don't want to stick its neck out for millions of users using its servers for free, so they just comply with the DMCA notice and take down the video. Its the reality of the current situation. If you're not paying for server space, you have no power. I'm not entirely sure that's a "bad" thing either, but I can admit that you can feel powerless as a user.
moron4hire 11y ago
I got an automated notice of a Copyright violation for a song I had added to my video through the YouTube interface, out of their own library of free songs. Just how profitable does your business have to be before you can start hiring people? Apparently not even Google or Facebook or Apple have enough money to hire a bunch of minimum-wage help-desk employees to police content on their own sites. Of course, we know it's not a matter of ability, but desire. They know people come to YouTube to be able to find whatever content they want. Content ID and their DMCA process is just paying lipservice to the idea that they are playing by the rules. They want this system. It keeps the new content churn high, which keeps users refreshing the page, which gets new ads served to them.

dragontamer 11y ago

The DMCA law in 1996 was written before youtube even existed. The assumption at the time was that people controlled all the contents of their website. Then web services were invented, and now the law doesn't match up with how people typically use the internet. The laws need to be updated, and to do so we will have to fight against the Hollywood political lobby. You see, the DMCA is a perfectly acceptable law if you were hosting videos on your own server. YOU would get the DMCA notice, and then you can decide whether or not you want to be held liable in court. Today, you put your video on Youtube. Therefore: Youtube gets a DMCA notice, and Youtube administrators need to make the decision whether or not to go to court about the issue. The admins don't want to stick its neck out for millions of users using its servers for free, so they just comply with the DMCA notice and take down the video. Its the reality of the current situation. If you're not paying for server space, you have no power. I'm not entirely sure that's a "bad" thing either, but I can admit that you can feel powerless as a user.

moron4hire 11y ago

I got an automated notice of a Copyright violation for a song I had added to my video through the YouTube interface, out of their own library of free songs. Just how profitable does your business have to be before you can start hiring people? Apparently not even Google or Facebook or Apple have enough money to hire a bunch of minimum-wage help-desk employees to police content on their own sites. Of course, we know it's not a matter of ability, but desire. They know people come to YouTube to be able to find whatever content they want. Content ID and their DMCA process is just paying lipservice to the idea that they are playing by the rules. They want this system. It keeps the new content churn high, which keeps users refreshing the page, which gets new ads served to them.