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You really think the main way YouTube profits is from illegally posted material? That doesn't seem likely to me.
by davidcbc 8y ago
You really think the main way YouTube profits is from illegally posted material? That doesn't seem likely to me.
- resters 8y agoIf that weren't the case, not sure why it would be so costly to comply with the EU laws. Doubly true because of ContentID.
- AnthonyMouse 8y agoBecause the compliance cost is not caused by losing revenue from having to remove infringing content. And ContentID is useless because it's full of false positives and false negatives, so it only creates problems for honest customers without even removing all of the infringing material.
- chimeracoder 8y ago> If that weren't the case, not sure why it would be so costly to comply with the EU laws. Doubly true because of ContentID. Because the costs are determined not by the number of true positives, but by the degree of difficulty in identifying those true positives with both high precision and high recall, and by the level of risk that false negatives provide. This is why SESTA forced Craigslist to shut down their personals section in the US. No, the overwhelming majority of posts were not by sex workers, but the liability that SESTA imposed was so high that there was no way for them to operate it in a manner that wouldn't expose them to massive legal risk.
- ggggtez 8y agoThe article and the comments here make it clear YouTube is saying the cost of following the law, not the cost of breaking it, is the thing that would be too expensive. Following the law being the cost of following up on the copyright owners of every piece of content before allowing it to be viewed, unlike now where they let it upload and only take action if there is an infringement reported.