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YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoSo now if I want to get someone's video taken down, I just need to buy them some extra views? Cool!
- suyash 14y agoOr flag it and wait for YouTube to take it down, which will take ages if it happens
- zaidf 14y agosome extra views Billions, not some.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoI used the word "some" loosely.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoAnd then the owner reupload it again, until you get broke for doing such silly things. And of course the video owner will vlog about it and YouTube will decide that they are just going to decrease the views counter. This kinds of countermeasures generalizations based on single incidents always struck me as rather silly.
- illuminate 14y agoIf you can afford to do it on this scale, there are probably better things you can do with your time and money.
- hkmurakami 14y agoI remember seeing a graphic showing that certain KPOP songs had equal numbers of views from literally all over the world, including the majority of African and Middle Eastern countries. I'd certainly be interested in seeing some numbers on view inflation on those videos.
- w1ntermute 14y agoDo you mean literally equal, or approximately equal? I can see there being high view counts for K-pop music videos in the Middle Eastern and African countries, where it K-pop gained popularity as a credible alternative to Western entertainment, which may be too sexualized for the socially conservative sensibilities in those countries. America's military aggression in that part of the world hasn't done Western entertainment any favors either.
- ceol 14y ago> where it K-pop gained popularity as a credible alternative to Western entertainment, which may be too sexualized for the socially conservative sensibilities in those countries. I doubt that's the reason: K-pop is pretty sexualized. It's also very big on objectifying women and enforcing unrealistic expectations of beauty.
- w1ntermute 14y agoI would disagree. Although some entertainers have been pushing the limits in the last year or two, on the whole, things are quite restrained. > It's also very big on objectifying women and enforcing unrealistic expectations of beauty. This is not exactly the same thing as blatant visual sexualization, as seen in American entertainment. However, it is definitely an issue with K-pop and South Korean society in general.
- danso 14y agoA New Yorker piece argued that K pop was much less sexualized than its Japanese and American counterparts, to the point that the music stars themselves have to live a pretty straight edge life while in the spotlight http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/08/121008fa_fact_seabrook http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/10/08/121008fa_fact_...
- w1ntermute 14y agoRight, many of the entertainment agencies have "dating bans" that often last until the artists are in their late 20s. This is the exact opposite of what's going on with someone like Taylor Swift - a new guy every couple of months. In America, the fans take an interest in that, or at least don't discourage it. And they eat up the songs that are based on her relationships. In Korea, an artist would be crucified for acting like that.
- SquareWheel 14y agoApparently these recommendations are "just for me": Brazilian author goes topless to fight book piracy, Cam girl's emotional reaction to trolling goes viral, Half-naked daughter helps Dad sell 1977 Datsun on eBay. Each with an illicit photo. Is there a more reputable source, perhaps?
- _seininn 14y agoYoutube seems to be pushing these recommendations on me as well. The funny thing is that "normal" recommended videos are usually preceded by the message "Recommended for you because you watched ..." on youtube's home page. The suggestive recommendations, however, are preceded by a simple, mysterious "Recommended for you".
- loceng 14y agoDidn't read the article - but was there revenue share related to these views, or maybe just being higher up in ratings for being most popular?
- JaggedJax 14y agoI wondered about the revenue sharing for a bit before realizing Google didn't take a financial hit from the fake views. If anything, they profited. It's the advertisers who took any hit by paying for ad space that was only seen by bots.
- loceng 14y agoThat would show worse ROI then though, which looks bad on Google.
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- 6ren 14y agoWhich makes PSY hitting a billion all the more impressive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0
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- sakopov 14y agoSo, let me get this straight. A typical YouTube channel can have its video suspended if it violates the "viewcount policy." However, when a not so typical YouTube channel owned by Universal or Sony, who are responsible for sending out DMCA takedowns, violates the same policy all they get is a drop in views? Oh how the corporations run everything. This is really really great, Google.
- teovall 14y agoNo, if I read it right, they got their videos removed too. "UMG, which had long held a heavy hand in YouTube operations, now only boasts five videos on its YouTube channel" "Sony's page, by comparison, is currently empty."