[Rumori] wholesale censorship (fwd)

{ brad brace } bbrace at eskimo.com
Sun Apr 26 05:00:49 PDT 2009


An enterprising YouTube user has completed a fascinating set 
of tests to figure out how sensitive the audio 
fingerprinting tools are in YouTube's Content ID system. 
(This is the system being used by Warner Music Group to do 
wholesale censorship of music, including clear fair uses, on 
YouTube.) After uploading 82 videos that include altered 
versions of The Waitresses' hit, "I Know What Boys Like," 
the experimenter comes up with a number of interesting 
conclusions

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/testing-youtubes-aud

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