YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation financially impossible

Re:YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation fina... by manfredo on Monday November 12, 2018 @03:20PM (#18435365)

Assuming each content checker can process 8 hours of video a day, you'd need 180,000 (wrong, 100k as corrected by the commenter below) people working to review every video. Sure, YouTube doesn't need to review every video, but that 8 hours a day figure is being very generous. Account for management, documenting the results of review, appeals process, training, etc. and the throughput of reviewers is probably less than half of 8 hours per day.

Even if only 1% of videos get flagged for review, YouTube is still looking at ~50% of all it's employees working on reviewing video.

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Re:YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation fina... by Aloisius on Monday November 12, 2018 @03:35PM (#18435498)

105,120 if working 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year.

Of course, that don't work for copyright protection since there isn't a person alive who can recognize every copyright protected image/video/audio on the planet and whether the person uploading owns/licenses the copyright in every territory.

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Re:YouTube CEO calls EU’s proposed copyright regulation fina... by manfredo on Monday November 12, 2018 @03:50PM (#18435653)

Maybe feasible if < 1% of content requires human review. (~1,000 reviewers). But seeings as a lot of people treat report buttons as a "mega downvote" I don't think this is feasible in practice.

If this law is rolled out, I highly suspect that YouTube in the EU will consists solely of large channels that have a low rate of videos that violate policy.

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