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Try to start a video-sharing service. Go ahead, I'll wait. What will happen is that you will get a flood of DMCA takedown notices, and Google will get a flood
by ubernostrum 9y ago
Try to start a video-sharing service. Go ahead, I'll wait.
What will happen is that you will get a flood of DMCA takedown notices, and Google will get a flood of DMCA takedown notices for your site. Then Google will penalize you in search rankings for being a source of so many DMCA notices. Meanwhile, YouTube -- which generates far more takedown claims than you ever will -- is exempt from that ranking penalty because it's a Google service.
The same is true of a lot of other areas; Google can and does use ranking penalties and placement priorities on the search-result pages to give preferential treatment to its non-search businesses. How will you compete with that?
- deelowe 9y agoThere are tons of video sharing services. Arguably Twitch is doing a pretty good job of taking on youtube. Do you expect a competitor to simply copy youtube and be successful? Business doesn't really work that way.
- ubernostrum 9y agoI don't mean a live-streaming service. I mean a place where you upload videos for on-demand viewing by others. You will have an uphill battle against Google ranking penalties, while YouTube gets a free pass.
- Klockan 9y agoYou can view old sessions in Twitch so they definitely get a lot of DMCA requests as well. See: https://www.twitch.tv/p/dmca-guidelines https://www.twitch.tv/p/dmca-guidelines
- deelowe 9y agoThis is getting pretty close to FUD. What penalties are you talking about? As additional examples, I come across Vimeo and daily motion videos all the time when using video search.
- kuschku 9y agoGoogle automatically down-ranks websites if they get lots of DMCA claims. This is documented, acknowledged, and publicly known. Google also automatically ignores any such claims for their own properties w.r.t search ranking.
- deelowe 9y agoI've already given three examples where this doesn't seem to be an issue.