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Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by la_barba on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:13PM (#20557567)
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?
Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by drexlspivey on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:45PM (#20557921)
80 years of video is being uploaded to youtube every day so do the math
Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by isostatic on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:43PM (#20559220)
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

Re:YouTube faces creator backlash by la_barba on Monday July 29, 2019 @02:53PM (#20558013)
I don't want to do math with flawed data. Every minute of uploaded content is not going to face copyright strikes, and does not need to be reviewed.