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I can't imagine the incredible amount of man-hours that were wasted on detecting if your video has fucking copyrighted material in it. Absolute shame.
by Dirlewanger 6y ago
I can't imagine the incredible amount of man-hours that were wasted on detecting if your video has fucking copyrighted material in it. Absolute shame.
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoThe technology has existed for a nearly 20 years. Shazam [0] existed long before smartphones and could identify songs based on 10 second samples. YouTube can easily leverage this song-identifying technology to detect copyrighted material. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(application) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shazam_(application)
- georgebarnett 6y agoRecognising a song is not the same as recognising copyright.
- Sohcahtoa82 6y agoOf course not, but if it can recognize the song, and the record labels have given YouTube a list of copyrighted songs, it's not too hard to put the two together.
- spacemanmatt 6y agoIf you accept the false positives that impact lots of us, then sure, it's not too hard. This is one of those cases where 99% is easy but society needs 100% and that's not as easy.
- politician 6y agoI'd like to see a total energy comparison between Content ID and Bitcoin PoW.
- banana_giraffe 6y agoNot just them. There are companies that exist primarily to help content creators manage this stuff. It's insane.
- mdpopescu 6y agoOff-topic: this is one of the few comments you have that aren't dead.