Ever wonder exactly how many videos are taken down from YouTube because of copyright violations or other reasons? So did the folks at the MIT Free Culture student group. They created YouTomb to document all YouTube videos that have been taken down. It is currently tracking 177,000 videos, and counts 4,394 that have been taken down for alleged copyright violations.
For each video taken down, YouTomb records the title, description, who uploaded it, when it was taken down, and some screen shots. You cannot watch the videos on the site. But it does document what happened to them, in case any were taken down wrongfully, in accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which requires that Youtube chooses to comply with by removing any videos for which it receives a take down notice). The biggest users of the take down notice ion Youtube include TV TOKYO, Viacom, Warner Bros, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
(via Google Operating System).
Correction: the DMCA does not require that they take down a video. It requires that the ISP/site notify the person who uploaded the content, and that person then can tell the ISP/site that they have the rights to the content, or don’t. No response or not having rights means it gets pulled.
The problem is that most ISPs and site owners simply pull content without bothering to contact the person who uploaded it. You have no recourse as a legitimate owner. There are lots of examples of people posting parody videos and having (illegal) DMCA takedown notices. No penalty for breaking the law this way, of course.
Cool.
Is it just copyright violations or are videos that break YouTubes ToS (Porn and such) also tracked?
another domain inspired startup it seems.
who’ll visit the Video Grave yard other than those who originally gave birth to the video on youtube?
by the way…who’s funding these guys… and how much ?
Wow, this will be great tool for all the IP lawyers. Also a good strategy, build something that threatens the business model of one of the big ones in a legal way so they have to buy you to shut you down
Peter
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Mark - there is theoretically a penalty for filing false Take Down notices - perjury. The problem is its the content uploader that is supposed to file the counterclaim, and they rarely bother, or are not properly notified by the site owners.
Generally its the EFF that gets involved at this point in a few high profile cases, like this one last week: http://arstechnica.com/news.ar.....stake.html
@Mike A. Are you guys looking for a proof reader??
teh take down notice -> the take down notice
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Come’on Alaska, you have been *here* so long you know they don’t care about typos. You usually have something actually interesting to say. Totally off-topic.
I don’t think this site will have many visitors, but kind of a neat service (and simple UI) though. Seems more like a resume builder. Better than another twitter app.
That’s interesting, the source is available at:
https://youtomb.mit.edu:8662/
Is google somehow pushing python usage at universities?
This is kind of a cute idea.
sounds terrible. they display WHO uploaded the rejected video?!!!! fvck’em, looks like google’s behavior in China.
This article looks like plagiarism. Do you guys take from another bloggers?
The biggest users of teh take down notice ion Youtube include TV TOKYO, Viacom, Warner Bros, and World Wrestling Entertainment.
According to YouTomb’s stats, the companies that have recently taken down the biggest number of popular YouTube videos are: TV TOKYO, Viacom, Warner Bros, World Wrestling and other media companies.
(http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/05/monitoring-videos-taken-down-from.html)
awesome!… great idea!!!
But where will sites like YouTomb, and others, go to die?
Fuckedcompany.com? Oh, that’s so 90s, isn’t it….?
Maybe not…
I’m predicting the Second Great Dot-Com Crash will begin VERY soon! (Like, 2-3 months from today.)
Remember, you heard it first here, folks. On the pages of TechCrunch from your good friend ol’ Joe T.
I still wonder how Youtube take down those videos, is it automatically?
People at MIT have nothing better to do these days? If this is the best they can come up with it’s a bit of a shame to the name of MIT, lol.
All, this is a project of a student group (MIT Free Culture) , not a startup.
I think it’s quite impressive what this team of MIT students has put together, then again, I’m involved in the project myself, and entirely biased.
“For each video taken down, YouTomb records the title, description, who uploaded it, when it was taken down, and some screen shots.”
Keeps track of the uploader. Great idea. Sure this wasn’t funded by the **AA cartels?
Great concept, i think this is the first start up that came up with this great idea.
2 thumbs up!
Nat
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Corporations who leverage VIDEO will obtain 20X returns, equivalent to the poooooooooo
Videos tend to be forgotten over years and then have a recycle period when they are remembered and brought back to the spotlight.
Rethink Copyright Rules
Here’s an article on why we should not rethink it.