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[ NNSquad ] Gaming YouTube: The missing line on the dispute form
Gaming YouTube: The missing line on the dispute form http://j.mp/wtwQLZ (This message on Google+) - - - I'm a big fan of YouTube, and efforts like Content ID have been important to help ensure the continued availability of content without draconian pre-approval regimes. But there are aspects in which the current copyright dispute mechanism on YouTube falls short, and appears easily gamed by unscrupulous entities. I ran into a classic case today, when one of my old uploaded videos was suddenly claimed by a company that I quickly determined was a massive porn site with no possible relationship to the material. Their modus operandi was obvious enough: Claim videos and let them keep running, but with ads that feed revenue back to the crooks making the claim. Since it's apparently possible to immediately get those ads up, they can be leveraged in the short term even if the claim is ultimately rejected, and probably many uploaders never even notice the ads inserted on their older videos. Unfortunately, the YouTube dispute form does *not* have a line item to specifically deal with this obvious case -- an entity claiming rights on a video to which they obviously have no connection at all. It's possible to sorta-kinda "repurpose" another option on the form to explain the situation, but really this explicit (and common) kind of trolling fraud should have a clear and direct line item of its own. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad