Youtube video, MUTED!!!

Brute · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 8:42 am Post subject: Youtube video, MUTED!!!

Alright, so I have a video uploaded to Youtube, and it consists of pictures I took outside around my house during the winter of 2007-2008. I called the video "My Winter", and I decided to use the song "My{Dsmbr" by Linkin Park. Me, my sister, and someone who commented on the video thought it all fit perfectly. We did, after all, get something like a third of all the snow that fell that winter in the month of December alone. Anyway, I looked at the video just recently and noticed that it has been muted!

ClickFanatic · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:25 am Post subject:

Youtube has an automatic content recognition system. Large labels like WMG (Warner Music Group) continue to provide more and more samples of 'their' content for analysis by Youtube, which then records a 'fingerprint' in their database.

Youtube material is gradually being scanned for content matching these fingerprints and videos that match are removed or muted, depending on the situation.

The advantage is that Youtube has found a way to filter content on a massive scale, although this does not mean that all videos (of which there many millions, perhaps billions) have been scanned.
The drawback is that, within the context of most (home) videos like yours, the use of such material can often be considered 'fair use' according to copyright law. In this case there is no legal reason to remove the content.
Unfortunately, this can not be detected by a computer program.

The problem with 'fair use' is that it does not apply as soon as the copyrighted content is used for profit. As a home video maker, you have no intention to make profit with your video, but Youtube has. They make money with advertising while videos are being watched.
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Brute · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:36 am Post subject:

Hmm, of course nobody will watch my video if it has no audio. This really sucks; I'm not sure what to do.
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ClickFanatic · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

You could try a different video host. Or try a medium other than the Internet (CD, USB sticks) if you only have a small and known target audience.
You can also zip the video with, maybe put a password on it to prevent automatic scanning and upload it to a filesharing service like Mediafire.

Of course the distribution is not as straightforward as Youtube, but it's still better than nothing. You also have to keep in mind that Youtube is a free service with hardly any limitations, perhaps this will make it easier to forgive them for removing your content.
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spock · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:58 am Post subject:

Brute · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 9:59 am Post subject:

Well, you know, I'm a little lazy, so I don't think I'll bother registering at another filesharing website. Plus, I don't want to have two accounts to manage or whatever. I do have some friends that watch my videos, but I think it's cool when the whole world can see them, which is why I like using the most popular filesharing website out there.
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Brute · Posted: Fri May 01, 2009 12:56 pm Post subject:

Whoa, I'm not the only one who has suffered! At least five music videos that I favorited, and were in the top 9 section on my profile, are gone! I click to play it and all that happens is my page reloads and there is a message at the top saying:

ClickFanatic · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 7:19 am Post subject:

I completely agree.
Also, I don't understand why there would be a need for large labels such as WMG. Small, organised labels work perfectly, the relation with artists is better and they usually have much better ethics.
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Brute · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 9:17 am Post subject:

LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:19 pm Post subject:

Actually big labels have been making a push to try to remove all piracy or copyright materials from the internet in the past few weeks. Their activity has pretty much spiked.
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Scott · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 1:47 pm Post subject:

Same thing happened to me on a video I added. It isn't Youtube that is doing it, it is the record label, Youtube gets pressured to take them down so they either block the video or mute it. I personally think it is dumb because they aren't losing any money from people hearing a song they represent, if anything it increases the sales because it spreads the song to a larger audience but major labels will always fail to see this.
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LP-SolidRaven · Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:27 pm Post subject:

I wonder if you could throw the detection algorithm off by throwing in sounds that the speakers can't produce in millisecond intervals so it's not noticeable.
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spock · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 2:35 am Post subject:

Xtreme $niper · Posted: Sun May 03, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject:

I'd say try hosting your stuff on a different video hosting site, because this sounds more like a personal video than something you're trying to get everyone to watch, right? So there are other services that you can use that I actually like a lot better than the slow and clunky YouTube, like Vimeo.
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Jacky · 3.14159265358979323846264 Joined: 01 Jan 2005 Posts: 4175

You also got Dailymotion.

Google Video may be an option but I think Google has removed this service. It was still around last year, even after the acquisition of YouTube.
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