Really interesting reading, to learn how Youtube build its signature, and the get the works-for-all solution: increase your copyrighted music speed by 5%, ingenius :)
Great read! It would be nice if someone tested if 5% increases in video content also get through. I wonder if this will lead to a new generation of piracy on YouTube,
Anyone want to bet that, a year or two from now, we'll be reading that "the kids" prefer listening to sped-up music?
Also, I object to The Waitresses being labelled "one hit wonders". The author apparently forgot about the ubiquitous holiday song "Christmas Wrapping".
"Apparently they don't really care about repeat infringers"
I would be careful about operating under this assumption. Google's habit of locking out accounts across all of their services is well-documented. You wouldn't want that to happen over something silly.
Eh - what's the bet some do-gooder Googler reads HN and lowers the thresholds / throws in some more types of checking, and it's an arms race, and this person will have just helped them to improve. Still, /someone/ had to do it.
As I keep saying on HN, if people hosted 9mb clips on their own webserver, with Flash video streaming technology, there would be no way of censoring it.
Not quite off-topic, but related is: Can you currently stream Flash video off an Apache webserver? If not, would a startup writing a plugin for it be a good opportunity?
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Anyone want to bet that, a year or two from now, we'll be reading that "the kids" prefer listening to sped-up music?
Also, I object to The Waitresses being labelled "one hit wonders". The author apparently forgot about the ubiquitous holiday song "Christmas Wrapping".
I would be careful about operating under this assumption. Google's habit of locking out accounts across all of their services is well-documented. You wouldn't want that to happen over something silly.
Not quite off-topic, but related is: Can you currently stream Flash video off an Apache webserver? If not, would a startup writing a plugin for it be a good opportunity?