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They should tweak it so there are NO false positives. Maybe they miss a bunch of videos that have to be brought manually to their attention, but then at least t
by mhp 14y ago
They should tweak it so there are NO false positives. Maybe they miss a bunch of videos that have to be brought manually to their attention, but then at least the people playing by the rules are not punished.
The majority of copyright usage on Youtube is probably illegal or unsanctioned. Most of the time Youtube is doing the right thing and taking down bad videos.
But for the small number of people who are playing by the rules, and trying to do the thing they have asked us to do, you can't keep making them jump through hoops. They are punishing the good guys!
- res0nat0r 14y agoI'm sure that they would love to see that in action, but I'm pretty sure efficiently scanning the 100 years of video that is uploaded every single day isn't quite as easy as you think. Also if the group of engineers at YouTube are having a hard time getting it 100% correct you can believe it is a hard problem to solve. I'm sure the large majority of people are playing by the rules, just these small exceptions always keep getting posted to HN like they are the end of the world, but in reality they are the extremely small exception.
- mhp 14y agoI don't think it's an extremely small exception. If you have content that could be copyrightable (i.e. classical music, or anything that you've licensed yourself) it will definitely get caught by the automatic filters. Here's dozens of videos in response to a company using the filters fraudulantly http://goo.gl/eI8kj http://goo.gl/eI8kj I've done the research and this affects a large percentage of legitimate users (yes, overall its a small percentage of the TOTAL users, but a large percentage of legitimate users who have copyrighted material in their videos).