YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More

Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by adjkant on Monday June 18, 2018 @05:04PM (#17341685)

I really like the per error idea - allows for large cases to have no barrier to contest but for the whole thing to not become like patent trolling. Maybe also some sort of threshold for mass cases, like a progressive taxation:

If you're right 95% of the time, you get a discount. If you're wrong 50% of the time, you pay the full fee.

Who would be in charge of setting these?

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by glenneroo on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @07:07AM (#17345498)

Or what about a system like they use in Finland to deal with speeding tickets - the fine is based on your income. The local paper has a weekly list of top offenders, which is amusing to say the least.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by scroogly on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:32AM (#17347016)

Sorry to hijack the thread slightly, but is only to introduce some visibility to the fact that this particular issue is nothing to do with the EU, or content ID, or anything like that.

Google is blackmailing the Blender foundation to try and get them to enable adverts.

https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blende...

edit - and Blender have now got https://video.blender.org/ in testing already. I didn't think they'd be the ideal people to issue ultimatums to on video hosting, given their technical specialities.

A situation like this triggered the development of git, (after the licence to use bitkeeper was withdrawn from the linux kernel team) so I will be watching the fallout with interest.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by hknd on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @05:55AM (#17353885)

Apparently Blender had more than 2 years to sign an updated contract - a contract which every partner had to sign to comply with updated legal regulations. Their existing contract would not work anymore (legal reasons?).

The Blender team never did that, and also never reacted to any youtube support mails.

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Re:YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Video... by natch on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @03:43PM (#17359013)

That doesn't map onto the Blender account of what happened.

They said YouTube was requiring them to enable ads, but the ads checkbox was grayed out. Among other issues. Not that they wanted to enable ads on a not for profit site. But just taking this one issue, it's not clear how they could have possibly complied with Google's requirement, when Google keeps the checkbox UI element grayed out and unchangeable.

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