Exactly how does a video get pulled from youtube?

[fezident]

I ripped an SNL musical performance (Elvis Costello featuring the Beastie Boys as his backup band) from a store-bought dvd the other day, and I uploaded that clip to youtube.
Literally within 3 minutes, that video was taken down. "this content removed by user" or some shit now appears where my video should be.

Does anybody know how this happens?
I didn't put any titles or tags within the clip. It didn't say "Beastie Boys" "SNL" or "Costello". There was nothing to identify what the clip was. (I was going to send the link to a friend, as the file itself was too large to attach to an email)

How would anybody from the record company and/or NBC possibly know that I even uploaded that clip?? And yet... it was an active link for a minute or two before it was pulled down.

Even if these companies had literally thousands of interns combing the web looking for copyrighted material.... it seems impossible to me that they would be able to locate MY random unlabeled clip within such a short amount of time.

What gives?

[cougarjake13]

U said store bought DVD

So maybe there was an encryption in the video code that alerted them once posted

[Chigworthy]

I ripped an SNL musical performance (Elvis Costello featuring the Beastie Boys as his backup band) from a store-bought dvd the other day, and I uploaded that clip to youtube.
Literally within 3 minutes, that video was taken down. "this content removed by user" or some shit now appears where my video should be.

Does anybody know how this happens?
I didn't put any titles or tags within the clip. It didn't say "Beastie Boys" "SNL" or "Costello". There was nothing to identify what the clip was. (I was going to send the link to a friend, as the file itself was too large to attach to an email)

How would anybody from the record company and/or NBC possibly know that I even uploaded that clip?? And yet... it was an active link for a minute or two before it was pulled down.

Even if these companies had literally thousands of interns combing the web looking for copyrighted material.... it seems impossible to me that they would be able to locate MY random unlabeled clip within such a short amount of time.

What gives?

No need for interns to comb it when the computer does it for them. Some people will flip the video left to right to avoid this, but I'm pretty sure the audio track is the giveaway.

[fezident]

I suppose it's possible that youtube has some kinda software that detects the algorithm of songs. (same as Shazam or SoundHound)... but then... why wasn't my video removed IMMEDIATELY? Software would've squashed my upload right away.
The fact that it took a few minutes to get taken down makes me think that there's a human being somewhere in the chain of events.

[sailor]

I think they were talking last week about posting clips left-right inverted because it defeats the matching software. I don't know if the searching is done by YouTube or NBC or whoever. I'd think it's by YouTube or you'd get a viewcount out of it.

[keithy_19]

Did you consider using megaupload to share the file to your friend?

[StanUpshaw]

Did you consider using megaupload to share the file to your friend?

Good luck with that.

[keithy_19]

Good luck with that.

:innocent:

[PapaBear]

:innocent:
Does this mean you know what Stan means be "good luck"?

[tele7]

I've had a few vids yanked from youtube, but not many. Usually they just tell me they will place ads with no further action required on my part. Anything from WMG is a target, and quite a few others.

Try uploading to Vimeo.com I've never had an issue there and the video quality is great. You won't get as many views, but at least it will be there to share when you want to.

[hanso]

Our Gov. busted NZ. Megaupload last season.


My guess is there is a keyword SNL that stops it. All my SNL clips where pulled when I had a youtube with music videos and clips like SNL stuff the whole thing was removed.

[PapaBear]

Our Gov. busted NZ. Megaupload last season.


My guess is there is a keyword SNL that stops it. All my SNL clips where pulled when I had a youtube with music videos and clips like SNL stuff the whole thing was removed.
He said he didn't use keywords like that.

[Chigworthy]

I'm still saying it is a digital match thing. If you google "google" on google maps, you will see that google has just about a small city of google buildings in their google complex. I'm sure they have the resources to have a database of media samples to check uploads against. It wouldn't even have to be the entire audio file of your video. Even if they had a millisecond for every ten seconds, if the data lined up, it would get pulled. I'm kind of a genius, so if they don't have that, I'm going to make it. And maybe the check is only done after a video gets uploaded to rule out some kind of service denial upload request virus. See how smart I am?

[fezident]

Fuckin' YouTube.

[hanso]

He said he didn't use keywords like that.

Oh yeah, missed that.

You must have had some title or it would have said you need a title to post.

Try some site like it but not in US.