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Re:Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views)... by plerpin on Saturday June 20, 2020 @03:08PM (#23586094)
A mechanism for regulatory compliance will probably err on the side of less exposure to lawsuits. They're stuck between a rock and a hard place, but the demands imposed by the government for copyright compliance are backed by a bigger stick.

Don't kid yourself, any other commercially successful VOD platform will have the exact same problem. A startup might squeak by under the radar for a while, but as soon as it gets critical mass, it won't be long before it gets encumbered by all this regulatory "fun".

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Re:Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views)... by the_pwner224 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:22PM (#23586945)
> the demands imposed by the government for copyright compliance are backed by a bigger stick

Youtube's takedown process goes WAY beyond what the DMCA requires. Youtube is the bitch of / in bed with the big media companies.

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Re:Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views)... by Wingy on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:28PM (#23587001)
YouTube's Copyright System Isn't Broken. The World's Is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jwo5qc78QU

Edit: Oh someone already posted it here, sorry.

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Re:Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views)... by CM30 on Saturday June 20, 2020 @04:38PM (#23587090)
A centralised platform might have the same problem. A decentralised or federated one might not, since no one would have the power to remove anything.

Maybe also some blockchain based system where uploads are physically impossible to take down. That's going to be interesting to see the results for court case wise, just like it'll be if illegal content ends up on the Bitcoin one.

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Re:Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views)... by plerpin on Saturday June 20, 2020 @05:21PM (#23587404)
A blockchain based storage system means that every participant will need to store every video forever in order to achieve consensus. If the blockchain uses URLs to external resources, then those can be easily be taken down.
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Re:Gameloft took down Marvel's SpiderMan trailer (11M views)... by mirimir on Saturday June 20, 2020 @06:31PM (#23587969)
Right. But that'd be overkill. Torrents plus streaming apps do a decent job already. Why couldn't that expand to YT scale?
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