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You make a convincing argument, but that still doesn't mean Google/YouTube shouldn't be pouring developer time in if they don't want the people who made YouTube
by nicholassmith 14y ago
You make a convincing argument, but that still doesn't mean Google/YouTube shouldn't be pouring developer time in if they don't want the people who made YouTube to disappear to a rival content provider. People will get sick of the randomised takedowns, even if it's simple to resolve.
- sp332 14y agoWell they have put developer time in, not to mention massive amounts of computing power. It processes every video uploaded to youtube, and compares it to every video in the contentID system. It's pretty amazing. There's a short TED talk on it http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_stewart_how_youtube_thinks_about_copyright.html http://www.ted.com/talks/margaret_stewart_how_youtube_thinks...
- nicholassmith 14y agoI'd argue that with the level of false positives it needs improvement. I won't argue that the existing system isn't both impressive in terms of scale and complexity, just that it's not working as well as it should over something like blocking ma & pa's home video for the Britney Spears track you can hear in the background.
- roc 14y ago> "People will get sick of the randomised takedowns," They haven't yet. And what rival content host has a better system? I'd like to think people would demand better. But when it comes to free services, they generally don't.
- nicholassmith 14y agoI know people who have gotten sick of the takedowns, so I'm basing that off a small subset of people who use YouTube, but I can't see them being the only ones. Take a wild stab at where they've gone. And it doesn't have a better system in many regards, but they already put all their other digital ephemera on it.