Poll: AJ's video about YouTube Heroes got copyright flagged...

[CaitSeith]

For those who have been away from YouTube lately, YouTube Heroes will be basically an official YouTube group to which people can become members, add subtitles to videos and flag commentaries. The better a member perform, the more access to tools and moderating power they'll get (from mass flagging videos to have direct contact with YouTube staff). Needless to say, Youtubers that deal with frequently with copyright strikes and moderate crappy comments aren't to happy. Angry Joe made a video explaining his view.


The very next day, his video had a copyright notice. It seems it wasn't YouTube nor anyone involved with the creation original video, but a copyright troll that has been active for a while.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, nothing in the YouTube Heroes program affects copyright trolls.

 

[Pseudonym]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, nothing in the YouTube Heroes program affects copyright trolls.

Indeed. That would just be youtube's hands off approach to copyright that makes it so easy on youtube, or the fact that youtube allows these trolls to monetize the video they claimed. It used to be such that even if the claim was rejected, in the two weeks in between, they could still make money of the video claimed. Youtube is still to blame for making these easily exploitable systems and just not giving a fuck but the heroes programme is mostly a different manifestation of youtube's incompetence and lack of care.

I'm also pretty sure that the company AJ found near the end of the video was not the same studio71 that was copyright trolling his video's. I think the copyright trolls deliberately made themselves sound like they were. I like angry joe but this last one really wasn't particularly accurate or insightful. It seems mostly borne from anger (no surprise there), before he had his facts straight.

 

[MeatMachine]

YouTube Heroes has a 98% disapproval rating. Absolutely NO ONE wants this to be implemented, but they are going ahead with it anyway because it is free labor and frees them of culpability from the abuse of copyright trolls and censorial mass flagging campaigns.

It doesn't matter if the idea is effective, or even counter-effective for cleaning up the site; this whole situation reeks of avoidance on the part of Google, and is probably because YouTube is not a worthwhile financial investment. "Whatever, these are your guys' problem now, so fight it out amongst yourselves" is what I'm getting from it.

 

[FalloutJack]

This tends to bring a fair deal of credibility to what I have said before. Youtube is undermanned, underpaid, and underskilled for the task it has to undertake. Which is funny, when you think about it, since Google is fucking made of money, but those guys piddle it all away on goofy-ass ideas. If Youtube needs more people - and it does - Google should HIRE them, with MONEY. Assholes.