YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views

Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday December 21, 2012 @07:01PM (#4955189)

So now if I want to get someone's video taken down, I just need to buy them some extra views?

Cool!

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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by suyash on Friday December 21, 2012 @07:56PM (#4955333)

Or flag it and wait for YouTube to take it down, which will take ages if it happens

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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by zaidf on Friday December 21, 2012 @08:06PM (#4955355)

some extra views

Billions, not some.

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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by TazeTSchnitzel on Friday December 21, 2012 @08:09PM (#4955360)

I used the word "some" loosely.

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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by illuminate on Saturday December 22, 2012 @05:46PM (#4957753)

If you can afford to do it on this scale, there are probably better things you can do with your time and money.

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Re:YouTube strips Universal and Sony of 2 billion fake views by jQueryIsAwesome on Friday December 21, 2012 @09:30PM (#4955547)

And then the owner reupload it again, until you get broke for doing such silly things. And of course the video owner will vlog about it and YouTube will decide that they are just going to decrease the views counter.

This kinds of countermeasures generalizations based on single incidents always struck me as rather silly.

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