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I recommended checking out Tom Scott’s video on DMCA (0). It’s 40 minutes long and rather YouTube centric however it paints a very clear picture as to why these
by I_Byte 5y ago
I recommended checking out Tom Scott’s video on DMCA (0). It’s 40 minutes long and rather YouTube centric however it paints a very clear picture as to why these companies are engaging in a seemingly broken practice. It’s not because they want to, it’s because they are legally required to do so.
(0) - https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU
- kelnos 5y agoYouTube goes very much above and beyond what the DMCA requires, and favors the interests of the big corporate copyright holders over smaller creators. I imagine they do this because of their settlement with Viacom[0] where they likely bent over backwards to avoid further appeals and lawsuits. Viacom likely said "regardless of how this goes, we and other copyright holders will sue YouTube off the internet unless you build a system that proactively takes down everything even remotely potentially infringing without us having to notify you of anything". And Google caved. Don't get me wrong, the DMCA is still overall a bad law (though, to be honest, I think the copyright takedown process is the least bad part of it), but Google is not doing what they do because of the DMCA. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._YouTube,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viacom_International_Inc._v._Y.... -- notably, no money changed hands as a part of the settlement, but other terms were not disclosed.
- NaturalPhallacy 5y agoThe DMCA was written by lawyers for lawyers. And you know who can afford lawyers? Big corporate copyright holders.