Re:YouTube faces creator backlash
by la_barba on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:13PM
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Can you explain exactly the level of scale you're talking about? How many humans do you think would be needed to handle copyright claims?
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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash
by drexlspivey on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:45PM
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80 years of video is being uploaded to youtube every day so do the math
80 years, or 700,000 hours.
At $10 an hour that would be $7m a day, $2.5b a year.
Alphabet's revenue is arround $144b a year, so it would cost 2% of revenue to review every single uploaded video. Clearly that's not going to be needed -- you only need to review those which
1) Have a claim by $BIG_CORP
2) Have a counter claim