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They need it anyway to enforce copyright. Simple content hashing tricks don't work because people upload slightly cropped or mirrored copyrighted content. Und
by aeternum 2y ago
They need it anyway to enforce copyright. Simple content hashing tricks don't work because people upload slightly cropped or mirrored copyrighted content.
Understanding the content is ultimately the only way to properly enforce and discriminate IP theft vs. fair use at scale. And the Senate wants that feature as the IP lobby is strong.
- anticensor 2y agoYouTube actually can not tolerate fair use, due to the fact they work in countries with little to no fair use, such as Germany and Japan. They can only tolerate statutory exceptions to copyright that apply to all countries at once.
- everforward 2y agoAren’t there fancy hashing algos that are resistant to that? I feel like I remember PhotoDNA still being able to match even after a surprising array of modifications. I want to say cropping and reversing could still match, but I don’t really recall and would strongly prefer to not have “how to beat PhotoDNA” in my search history.
- aeternum 2y agoYes there are quite a few algos and YT already uses many of them but it only takes one person to find a workaround then publish it and it again opens the floodgates. All the different mechanisms that youtube has used is an interesting rabbithole but its ultimately an unwinnable cat and mouse game unless you have an algo that understands the actual content. Even the human reporting has become weaponized. Don't like the message of a video? have a bunch of youtube accounts flag it and it gets demonetized.