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Copyright Deadlock (The Jimquisition)

773K views · Apr 28, 2016 · 10:40 · 1 HN recommender · 5 mentions · discussed 2016–2021

A Jimquisition episode by Jim Sterling demonstrating the Copyright Deadlock, where a video includes footage owned by several companies so that competing YouTube Content ID claims cancel each other out. It highlights how absurd the system is.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as the clearest explanation of how broken Content ID is and of the deadlock trick for defeating forced monetization.

“Jim Sterling has done a brilliant job at explaining how broken the YouTube Content ID system is”HN comment, 2018

What Hacker News said 5

Strongly recommendsdessantAug 2018

“Jim Sterling has done a brilliant job at explaining how broken the YouTube Content ID system is”

Explains how broken Content ID is and how to avoid it.

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Jim Sterling has done a brilliant job at explaining how broken the YouTube Content ID system is, and how to prevent these companies from monetizing your work (though you don't get to run ads on the videos either). Possibly NSFW: this video

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Cites ittramparamSep 2016

“Jim Sterling goes over demonetisation with ContentID [1]”

Jim Sterling on demonetization with ContentID.

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When Pewdiepie (person on your [2] link on Silver & Up banner) complains [0] that YouTube isn't communicating enough, most people will agree that problem is at their side. >Demonetization happens when a video doesn't meet their "advertiser-friendly" policy, but there is an appeal process where you can have a human look at it to determine if the original assessment was wrong [0]. Do you have data to support your claim that their algorithms are "poorly calibrated"? It happens all the time when content creators are using content under fair use. Jim Sterling goes over demonetisation with ContentID [1] and latest changes [2] in his videos. I don't know if he have used that email support, but it would be fair to assume that he have tried and gave up. [0] link [1] this video [2] link

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Cites itpdkl95Feb 2017

“He discovered it is possible to defeat ContentID-based forced monetization of his videos by including multiple songs/footage from different businesses.”

Explains the 'Copyright Deadlock' trick to defeat ContentID monetization.

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Jim Sterling already uses a variation of this strategy, which he calls the "Copyright Deadlock"[1]. He discovered it is possible to defeat ContentID-based forced monetization of his videos by including multiple songs/footage from different businesses. [1] (warning: Jim Sterling uses strong language) this video

in “The Internet Archive Pushes Back on “Notice and Staydown”” · view on HN
Cites itpdkl95May 2019

“Jim Sterling talking about including footage from multiple companies as a "copyright deadlock”

Jim Sterling on the copyright deadlock.

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Jim Sterling talking about including footage from multiple companies as a "copyright deadlock": this video

in ““A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”” · view on HN
Cites itpdkl95Jun 2021

“TL;DW - nothing happens, it's an unresolvable deadlock.”

Unresolvable claim deadlock that can be used deliberately.

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this video (cw: strong language) TL;DW - nothing happens, it's an unresolvable deadlock. This "feature" can sometimes be used by deliberately adding many easily claimable works in a video to prevent anybody from monetizing it.

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