How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards

Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by rabidsnail on Monday September 03, 2012 @03:52PM (#4471585)

We're not talking about a high school football game here. Ustream must have known that they were carrying the Tony's, and should have had a human in the loop.

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Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by guard-of-terra on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:09PM (#4471644)

In my experiences, manual backoffice that lets a human in a loop is rarely implemented (at all), rarely works and is frequently broken.

This is because the development process stimulates features and automation and such a backoffice has to touch every system while bypassing many checks. It's a perrenial pain in the ass.

So I expect a lot of companies and processes to lack "Plan B" entirely.

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Re:How Copyright Enforcement Robots Killed the Hugo Awards by rabidsnail on Monday September 03, 2012 @04:21PM (#4471686)

Ustream would probably have at least one "special" stream up at any given time, so that code would get enough traffic to prevent it from rotting.

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