Youtube censoring BS

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Youtube, in it's infinite wisdom, has now decided to start censoring videos with music dubbed to be copyrighted by certain record companies. This means that the millions of personal videos with even 20 seconds of a song are now being silenced.

I've done enough research to deduce that they are within their right to do this, but this is going to have a HUGE impact on the youtube user base.

My personal experience with this involved uploading a snowboarding video I made on vacation while using the song "Good" by "Better than Ezra". The entire video is timed with the song so it's basically useless now.

So now, I'm going to find other sites to upload to and I suspect the same from many other members. Im so mad about this I want to make a video expressing my emotions but it looks like all my music is copyrighted...
 
Yep it's been happening for a while now, loads of videos I made for games with songs from my favourite artists have been removed for copyright violation. As you say, I fit the video around the song, so without it...the video is pointless. No matter, it was good while it lasted...
 
I agree. Several videos I have watched are now silenced. Retarded.
 
Honestly, all this shit has an averse effect on record companies. Quite frankly, I hope record companies, and certainly the big ones, bleed to death as soon as possible. They serve no useful purpose in the industry, and only hurt us by pulling this stupid shit to protect their ancient business model.
 
They're not within their right to remove an under 30 second clip... I got a clip removed, then I clicked through to the complaints page, clicked the "fair use" box and told them the music targetted was under 30 seconds. My movie was available again in under 30 minutes.
 
Just use music by classical composers from the 18th century, recorded in the 1930's. Problem solved!
 
I'm waiting for them to start killing videos of video games, since there are copywrites as well.
 
i'm not even gonna get into it.....i'm 24 now, when i'm 34 things will probably be way better or way worse....i'm guessing the latter
 
While this makes legal sense for the most part, I'm pretty sure most artists that are true musicians would want their music shared with the rest of the world. Today, the internet is the rest of the world.

But artists don't dictate who listens to their music. Promoters and studio business do.

On the other hand, take what I just said as you will because I haven't downloaded music for my personal entertainment for a couple years now, for personal reasons.

However, I don't believe for a second that these businesses have their artists solely first in mind when they go out and do this. But, on the OTHER other hand the business loses money if they don't sell X amount of Y per year. However bloodsucking a corporation can get, isn't it just honest that they get the money that they legally deserve? I bet a small, hanging-by-a-thread studio industry would appreciate it.

Hmmmmmmm....
 
Don't use YouTube. Profit!

But you'll be glad to know that the RIAA is being sued again for being a cockup in court and will hopefully go away soon.
 
This is a shame... in the recent past you could upload videos to youtube, embed them on your personal website and not get sued yourself.
 
you think I could bypass this censorship if I got my hands on the original cd and ripped the song? I'd assume there would be no way to catch it, assuming I changed the name of the song when uploading.

I just made a video bitching about this on youtube and there is a real, shall I say, rebellion going on? Thousands of new videos regarding the censorship are popping up, it will be interesting to see where this goes.
 
does Youtube use an algorithm to find out if someone is using someone else's song?? or is it done by people??
 
Warped said:
does Youtube use an algorithm to find out if someone is using someone else's song?? or is it done by people??
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it can be flagged but I suspect the .mp3 I used had some kind of DRM type shit that basically says "THIS MOTHER ****ER IS STEALING OUR MUSIC WHICH WE MADE 14 YEARS AGO!!!"
 
I haven't read the thread, but I believe that you can use "AudioSwap" to add sound again.
 
^^^ the thread's about removing youtube videos altogether that contain copyrighted music.
 
Uh no, every post has been about the sound being removed from youtube videos.
 
And thus, the plague of internet kids posting their favorite Dragon Ball Z video to the tune of "let the bodies hit the floor" is now being cured.

Seriously, I kinda think we should be thanking them.
 
Rico said:
And thus, the plague of internet kids posting their favorite Dragon Ball Z video to the tune of "let the bodies hit the floor" is now being cured.

Seriously, I kinda think we should be thanking them.
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For every 1 AMV, there are 10 normal videos with music to it getting silence...

Yeah, GREAT JOB YOUTUBE! *clap clap clap*
 
Rico said:
And thus, the plague of internet kids posting their favorite Dragon Ball Z video to the tune of "let the bodies hit the floor" is now being cured.

Seriously, I kinda think we should be thanking them.
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Amen to that. The snowboarding video, that sucks I guess. But there is such an overwhelming majority of videos that are just editing shitty anime clips together to the tune of (insert X song that nobody else likes) and I for one welcome this change. I almost think that the removal of copyrighted music from the site was done in order to promote more original content rather than done at the complaint of recording companies.
 
Well, because I live in the U.S., they can't mute a video with their song in it because Fair Use under U.S. Law.

If your video gets muted, and you live in the US, APPEAL!
 
I did, but they insisted that it was still against their policy. I used a song from a band NO ONE knows and UMG took it down. I'm seriously not understanding their thought process. My video, having significant views, is essentially PROMOTING their artist. ****.
 
Yeah they just muted a Dystopia frag video I did with Kid Rock - Forever. I actually appeal them, and it goes back live, but then I delete it anyway cuz screw 'em, I no longer want to promote their music for free. Had been up about a year, too.

I had a 40 second clip using mahnha mahnah from the Muppets on a short spy vid...muted.

And to clarify, sometimes they disable the video, sometimes they only mute it.
 
I wonder if enough people will boycott youtube to actually make a difference.
This will be interesting.

CyberPitz said:
I'm waiting for them to start killing videos of video games, since there are copywrites as well.
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If the music the game uses is copyrighted (and it usually is), they have the green light to remove it.
 
jet_porkins said:
^^^ the thread's about removing youtube videos altogether that contain copyrighted music.
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Lol, even from my quick glance at the thread, I could still understand it was about YouTube videos having their sound removed altogether.
 
I just had an ad put in next to my video because of copywrited music, with the possibility of changing the music and getting rid of the ad.
 
What a surprise!

This all sounds amazingly similar to Napster, KaZaA/lite and OinK.

The company is basically in the copyright violation business, gets too big,
and WHAM! Lawyers start running the game. In this case, Google Lawyers.

If you want to do that kind of stuff, quit inviting a million friends into it.
 
Atomic_Piggy said:
I agree. Several videos I have watched are now silenced. Retarded.
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You can argue your case, which is what I did with all of my videos (Me playing drums to a song, and music videos I made to my favorite games) and they all got put back up... DON'T GIVE UP ON YOUTUBE YET! THEY STILL HAVE SOME FIGHT LEFT!
 
You know the best part? I can still easily search for relatively well-known artists and listen to full albums of songs just set to a backdrop of the cover. THAT WERE ADDED YEARS AGO. Way to nip it in the bud, youtube.
 
Sneaki said:
I just had an ad put in next to my video because of copywrited music, with the possibility of changing the music and getting rid of the ad.
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That's a great idea, putting ads up for the music that is in the video. Looks like not many studios are taking that option though.
 
You can get around the the copyright audio filter if you know what you're doing. Youtube probably use a Waveform Recognition system like Gracenote (http://www.gracenote.com/business_solutions/music_id/) to detect what the audio is. This probably expains why videos where the user has used a video camera to film a video on the TV or contain lots of noise and distortion usually bypass it.

Or, they have a bunch of worker monkeys that watch each video as it's uploaded. :D
 
Operational said:
That's a great idea, putting ads up for the music that is in the video. Looks like not many studios are taking that option though.
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Yeah it would be a good idea, but the ads that appear for me are just random ones, not specifically for the studio.
 
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