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> I was under the impression that what I was doing was legal, protected under DMCA’s fair use policy, which by practice is what makes sites like Youtube legal:
by raldi 13y ago
> I was under the impression that what I was doing was legal, protected under DMCA’s fair use policy, which by practice is what makes sites like Youtube legal: although they host millions of illegal content uploaded by users, as long as they agree to take down said videos when requested by copyright owners, they are in the clear because it is difficult/impossible to monitor what gets uploaded to their sites.
Actually, YouTube doesn't just passively sit around waiting for copyright holders to whack each mole one at a time; it has an incredibly sophisticated and powerful content-matching engine that does monitor what's being uploaded, and automatically checks new videos against a giant corpus of known copyrighted works.
There's a cool video about it here:
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797370?hl=en
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- sfall 13y agokeep in mind that youtube was around for 2+ years before content id was first introduced
- morrad 13y ago> it has an incredibly sophisticated and powerful content-matching engine that does monitor what's being uploaded, and automatically checks new videos against a giant corpus of known copyrighted works This is above and beyond the requirements of the DMCA though. Doing this isn't what makes Youtube legal, it just attempts to appease copyright holders.
- raldi 13y agoThat's a dangerous oversimplification. Read about the billion-dollar Viacom / YouTube lawsuit, and how it was anything but a sure thing that YouTube would win, despite their DMCA protections.
- horseapples 13y agoLawsuit came before DMCA. Lawsuit was filled in 97 and 98 was when DMCA was passed.
- dangrossman 13y agoViacom v YouTube was filed in 2007. YouTube didn't exist in 1997; it was founded in 2005. 1997 was before Napster even.
- horseapples 13y agoMy bad, no ideas what I was thinking.
- farginay 13y agoI believe there was a copyright safe harbor for content on the internet before DMCA. However, it may have been just through case law. BBS and USENet operators took advantage of it back in the day.
- btilly 13y agoNot just attempts to appease. It also provides youtube with advertising options on popular content because some copyright owners would like to leave material up and take a cut of ad revenue.
- gr3yh47 13y agonone of that is required by the DMCA though