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>obviously copyright infringing material Are you talking about youtube here?
by LekkoscPiwa 13y ago
>obviously copyright infringing material
Are you talking about youtube here?
- eli 13y agoAre you suggesting YouTube turns a blind eye towards copyright infringement? My experience has been that they aggressively patrol the site for infringing content to the point where they remove many videos that are clearly not infringing.
- Dylan16807 13y agoThey certainly seem to let people upload the same video over and over despite takedowns.
- dangrossman 13y agoYouTube itself does no patrolling. It can't have actual knowledge of specific acts of infringement if it wants to be protected by the DMCA; it's by turning a blind eye to it that they gain legal immunity from the infringement. You can be aware it's happening somewhere (even a lot) as long as you're not aware of the specific instances. The media companies themselves do the patrolling and their actions, through a special dashboard YouTube provides them, result in the widespread takedowns you see. They can do their own flagging and also review potential matches by a ContentID-type system that checks uploads against signatures of files the media companies upload to claim as theirs.
- LekkoscPiwa 13y agoMy channel has had stuff from CNBC, CNN, ABC, you name it - for 2 years. They do what?
- tptacek 13y agoYoutube does not operate with knowledge of actual specific infringement on their site. The DMCA creates a two-pronged obligation on hosting providers: they must respond to takedowns, and they can't operate with knowledge of actual specific unaddressed infringement. Not only did MegaUpload do that, but they (a) paid their users to upload content they knew to be infringing, and (b) themselves used the service to upload and download content they knew to be infringing.