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"One mustn't question their own success, only perform an epic dance to disco music to celebrate." - David Sanguineti
"One mustn't question their own success, only perform an epic dance to disco music to celebrate." - David Sanguineti
URGENT: Irat Gamer channel has been suspended
Seems that "Cry Wolf Productions" (who it currently seems isn't Bores, but a "dedicated fan") has flagged down yet another video, meaning that the account has now been suspended.
Videos will soon be exclusively uploaded to this website, but I will try to get the original channel back up and running. I've started filing counter-claims, so we'll see what happens.
At this point, I'm going to start going into rant mode about YouTube's flag system, so if you don't want to read about that, you can probably close this page now.
---RANT MODE---
It's fairly obvious YouTube is under-staffed. In fact, I bet YouTube is run by a single team in Google. This team constantly addresses futuristic looking site appearance overhauls (to make the aesthetics look better), but seems to rarely address bugs or functionality improvements (remember how long it took to add the "Sort by thread" option in the YouTube comments? Plus, it's still in beta!), and even more rarely address the constant copyright problems that the site has had for over three years now.
No matter how much YouTube denies it, it's pretty clear. YouTube doesn't check flags. At least, not copyright flags. I'd say you're lucky to get one person to have checked your flag on YouTube. Which conveniently brings me to my first point, YouTube is understaffed for the job of running YouTube.
Or they're ridiculously lazy. Could be either. But either way, I'd say if they had one team working on flags, one team working on bugs and functionality improvements, and one team working on appearance overhauls, I think it would work.
Although, perhaps YouTube is not earning enough money to hire this many people? Well, I've got a solution for that too. Monetize every video. Maybe even get rid of the partnership program and allow the features for everyone. At this point, it doesn't make sense when anyone with enough views can theoretically get partnership. It's hardly exclusive. As long as you make a video popular enough, you can monetize it. I don't see the point in not allowing it for everyone. Well, except for one.
So many YouTube users simply upload "funny" clips from Family Guy, or their favourite songs, etc.; things they shouldn't get paid for.
Well, I think YouTube already has the solution. Videos like that currently have ads on them, with money that gets sent to the music corporations. I think YouTube should be able to say that it's not their responsibility to check every video that's uploaded, it's the responsibility of the rightful copyright owners. It would be fair enough to, because a small amount of videos uploaded contain (collectively) only one corporation's copyright.
A corporation is also far less likely to intentionally false flag a video than any YouTube user, so with their aforementioned team handling flags, they could simply put the corporations' claims as a higher priority.
Those are the changes I would make if I was Google. I would have at least three teams working on different parts of it. Bugs/improvements, visuals, and flags. To get money to support hiring more people, I would monetize all videos, and leave it up to the rightful copyright owners to make sure that no one is monetizing their copyrighted content.
Hopefully I'll open this topic to debate and people can agree/disagree with what I say and discuss why. Of course, don't make it a flame war (thread will be closed, users will be "disciplined"), let's just have an intelligent discussion.
Posted by slimac55 on July 17th 2011 | 0 comments | Tweet
Seems that "Cry Wolf Productions" (who it currently seems isn't Bores, but a "dedicated fan") has flagged down yet another video, meaning that the account has now been suspended.
Videos will soon be exclusively uploaded to this website, but I will try to get the original channel back up and running. I've started filing counter-claims, so we'll see what happens.
At this point, I'm going to start going into rant mode about YouTube's flag system, so if you don't want to read about that, you can probably close this page now.
---RANT MODE---
It's fairly obvious YouTube is under-staffed. In fact, I bet YouTube is run by a single team in Google. This team constantly addresses futuristic looking site appearance overhauls (to make the aesthetics look better), but seems to rarely address bugs or functionality improvements (remember how long it took to add the "Sort by thread" option in the YouTube comments? Plus, it's still in beta!), and even more rarely address the constant copyright problems that the site has had for over three years now.
No matter how much YouTube denies it, it's pretty clear. YouTube doesn't check flags. At least, not copyright flags. I'd say you're lucky to get one person to have checked your flag on YouTube. Which conveniently brings me to my first point, YouTube is understaffed for the job of running YouTube.
Or they're ridiculously lazy. Could be either. But either way, I'd say if they had one team working on flags, one team working on bugs and functionality improvements, and one team working on appearance overhauls, I think it would work.
Although, perhaps YouTube is not earning enough money to hire this many people? Well, I've got a solution for that too. Monetize every video. Maybe even get rid of the partnership program and allow the features for everyone. At this point, it doesn't make sense when anyone with enough views can theoretically get partnership. It's hardly exclusive. As long as you make a video popular enough, you can monetize it. I don't see the point in not allowing it for everyone. Well, except for one.
So many YouTube users simply upload "funny" clips from Family Guy, or their favourite songs, etc.; things they shouldn't get paid for.
Well, I think YouTube already has the solution. Videos like that currently have ads on them, with money that gets sent to the music corporations. I think YouTube should be able to say that it's not their responsibility to check every video that's uploaded, it's the responsibility of the rightful copyright owners. It would be fair enough to, because a small amount of videos uploaded contain (collectively) only one corporation's copyright.
A corporation is also far less likely to intentionally false flag a video than any YouTube user, so with their aforementioned team handling flags, they could simply put the corporations' claims as a higher priority.
Those are the changes I would make if I was Google. I would have at least three teams working on different parts of it. Bugs/improvements, visuals, and flags. To get money to support hiring more people, I would monetize all videos, and leave it up to the rightful copyright owners to make sure that no one is monetizing their copyrighted content.
Hopefully I'll open this topic to debate and people can agree/disagree with what I say and discuss why. Of course, don't make it a flame war (thread will be closed, users will be "disciplined"), let's just have an intelligent discussion.
Posted by slimac55 on July 17th 2011 | 0 comments | Tweet