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Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by reaperducer on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:16PM (#18743700)
Every minute "over 400 hours" of content is uploaded to YouTube. It's a serious challenge to moderate a community at that scale.

If only YouTube had a large parent company with a significant portion of a trillion dollars that could be spent actually taking care of this problem.

Instead we get, “Let the bot script handle it. Oh, the system doesn’t work? Too bad.”

Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by fzeroracer on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:26PM (#18744016)
It should be obviously that the issue with humans is the same if not worse. People already complain en masse about Google censoring all kinds of stuff. Put a human behind things and then people will demand their head for taking down controversial videos.

Their algorithm is absolutely terrible however and doesn't absolve them of allowing incredibly awful content to exist on their platform. However this is simply not an easy problem to solve when you serve such a large community and want to bend to support as much of it as possible.

Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by tcd on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:27PM (#18743750)
"If only the world had a significant portion of several trillion dollars that could be spent curing cancer".

Money isn't the answer to all the world's problems. But I'm intrigued to hear how you think they should "take care of the problem". Maybe you can share your innovative python script that solves the problem for good.

Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by reaperducer on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:40PM (#18743814)
I'm intrigued to hear how you think they should "take care of the problem".

Hire actual humans to review disputed decisions, while putting in a proper appeals process that is also overseen by actual thinking humans.

Maybe you can share your innovative python script that solves the problem for good.

I'm not Google. I don't pretend that all of the world's problems can be solved by computers, and then fail while trying.

Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by tcd on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:50PM (#18743853)
They do have humans, but they make mistakes and have bias. And if we need to cover the amount of content Youtube gets per second we'd need a country of people.

Oh wait, Youtube have just gone bankrupt.

Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by lozenge on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:23AM (#18745231)
This is about disputed copyright claims, not all videos. Besides, most of these copyright holders probably file hundreds of automated claims (from examples in the thread: chiptune samples, royalty free drum loops, presidential speeches, CC licensed music). If it's obvious that it isn't copyrighted, YouTube can remove the fingerprint from the Content ID system and force the supposed copyright holder to issue a DMCA notice, which is much easier to dispute and works in favour of the uploader.
Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by Gonkero on Saturday December 22, 2018 @09:10PM (#18743945)
Machine learning IS the solution. If you have a better idea, you should contact Google immediately.
Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by v_lisivka on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:57AM (#18745315)
How to contact Google?
Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by anticensor on Sunday December 23, 2018 @01:48AM (#18744820)
> had a large parent company with a significant portion of a trillion dollars

You are describing Alphabet.

Re:YouTube's Copyright Protection System Is a Mess by gdy on Sunday December 23, 2018 @04:57AM (#18745317)
No shit, Sherlock