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Sep/12

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Automation and content blocking don’t mix

3 Comments · Posted by lance in Fair Use and DRM, Internet

YouTube’s anti piracy filters automatically blocked the authorized video of First Lady Michelle Obama’s convention speech as infringing.

Evidently the algorithm automatically looks for content that matches content from their commercial partners. Since all the networks were re-broadcasting the convention speech, it got flagged. This is not the first time this has happened.

Wired article on this here.

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