Stolen Content - Unfortunate Consequence of the Web and Video Sharing

DCMA reports (copyright claims) are next to useless, and very time consuming to file and finish. provided the person who stole your video does not counterclaim and keep the form bouncing from one side to the other.

My video on Break (notice in every instance they cropped the vid down a bit and encoded it in lower quality)

Live Leak

and youtube

But as they say, Once its on the web, It never really goes away!

[Aussie]

@donpalmera nah, not unless its a big name title or something. likewise the re-uploads have been cropped and compressed more, so its data signature is different to my HD file. the bots would never pick it up.

[leokimvideo]

@Kizmox it does not work, been there done that, all re-uploaders do is either crop or completely cover your watermark

[Aussie]

@FrozenParanormalwolf yeh, it will come to that, having a ugly watermark across the whole frame :(

[mibars]

@More350Power Exactly, you don't even need to download it deliberately, your browser dl's it and saves in cache folder in form of .flv or .tmp files (depends of browser used).

[leokimvideo]

aussie right now i can't discuss whats really happening to me apart from the fact it's becoming very messy

break is site who i had problems with right after i uploaded the spider video 2 years back, they took it down and within a day another upload appears

the yahoo rip which pulled 300K views finally got pulled, it took 8 weeks of hassle but yahoo will not disclose where the advertising income goes, the site who supplied the clip to yahoo will not return my mails

[Aussie]

@coondogtheman1234 I don't mind embedding, thats how they usually go viral

but a lot of people are uploading them to their own channel or another site, which is stealing

[slovokia]

Interesting that Youtube is capable of very quicly detecting copywrited audio in uploads and banning the upload as a result. It should be technically feasable to detect reuploads of video material as well. Perhaps they are not motivated to do so.

[TheError]

@Shandybrother Try disabling adverts in you channel options, maybe that will work...

[leokimvideo]

when you catch out youtubers who have split accounts and do the old multiple upload across a number of partner channels thats when it gets interesting

it's like how many times do you want to earn dollars from stolen content, the 'fair use' laws have a common thread, and thats your not making money from a re-uploaded work

in the current climate on youtube I dare not upload any new content, something which has become very clear to me, maybe thats why communitychannel did the bolt

[AntiProtonBoy]

For each of those pirated vids, fans of this channel should post a comment on there, linking back to the original clips in here.

[Aussie]

@Kizmox I've seen some of his vids a while ago, he has printed name cards or something in the background.

Guess I should run some off on heavy card and stick them to things when I do the videos.
general update and engineering ones are least likely to get ripped, but funny/crazy vids are always the first

[Aussie]

@vmodder lol yeh and about 10 others!, funny how fast news spreads between sites!

[NOLIMITNOLIMIT]

This is the kinda stuff that worrys me and my videos. That's why most of my videos have my water mark on them.

[donpalmera]

You would think youtube could scan uploads for duplicate content..

[CoolDudeClem]

You can disable videos being embedded on other websites, but if those other websites playing your videos are getting you more veiws that's good.

[bigclivedotcom]

A friend who had his Tesla coil vid nicked and used on Break got in touch with them and was given the payment. The real answer to this is to put something in your vids that can't easily be removed. My brother does whisky reviews as ralfystuff and has a multicolour card with with his website address on it to make his content identifiable. You could watermark your vids with "copyright aussie50".

[oranac]

Does youtube have a mechanism for attributing views to a verified original? Maybe they should, along with relinking exact dupes straight to the origin.

[BoomBoxDeluxe]

Sorry to hear that someone is stealing your vids, that sucks. It was YOU that took the time to assemble the video. Not just the video itself, but the bit before the video rolls, and the bit after you stop recording. I know that a 10-min vid can take about 3 hours, especially if it includes editing+stuff. These re-posters are theives, ESPECIALLY if they're monetising the video that ISN'T their property to upload or monetise.

YT & others should really clamp down on this video-theft thing.

-BBD.

[Aussie]

@zackarydemon they don't care unless somebody like Sony Entertainment or Viacom is wringing their necks and throwing lawyers at them.

[transdetendal]

@Aussie50 i uselly use the flag if its somone i know hwos been ripped from, or make a claime in the answer box that helps too