YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history

Re:YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history by dpkonofa on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @06:16PM (#19914367)

I would agree with you if thousands of videos and accounts weren't removed daily due to false "intellectual property" claims and automated reporting. YouTube's system is terrible because they're so large that they've had to try to automate a system that can't really be automated. A decentralized system would require those claims to actually be validated before they're processed because, otherwise, it would be a waste of time and money for the companies making the false claims.

I agree with you on the Library of Congress. We need a digital LoC.

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Re:YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history by criley2 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @07:55AM (#19918499)

After thinking about it, a decentralized system of intellectual property theft would not work the way you think. The owners would stop contacting individual sites for individual confirmation and would send safe harbor / DMCA reports to the host who would nuke the content without spending ten seconds on it to preserve their business.

The only sites safe would be those self-hosting, and those wouldn't be able to serve a lot of bandwidth without having the means to be sued.

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Re:YouTube “Let's Play”s are preserving video game history by dpkonofa on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @09:41PM (#19925424)

Even in that case, you'd have to deal with every hosting provider which, at the very least, would require an actual legal DMCA request rather than an automated one and, since people would be able to self-host, a way to contact their ISP who would have to verify that the claim and request are even valid. With YouTube, the automation is what's killing content creators and the archival value of the platform.

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