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How Major Film Studios Manipulate YouTube Users
An anonymous reader writes "A year before the major movie companies were offered the chance by YouTube to 'block, monetize or track' uploaded copyrighted material, studios such as Disney were already commissioning PR companies to create bogus YouTube users — complete with authentically 'trendy' semi-literate user-profiles, on accounts that appeared to be set up by young and 'edgy' teenagers. These faux 'users' were able to post high-definition videos from copyrighted movies without being penalised or impeded by YouTube's Content ID algorithms, and their posts, deliberately crammed with piracy-related search terms and timed (even to the day, in one case) to coincide with related DVD and Blu-ray releases, sometimes accrue a million and a half hits or more, whilst those of genuine YouTube uploaders fall at the site's Content ID firewall. This article looks at how the major studios have reacted to YouTube in the last four years, and also examines in-depth three such examples of apparent 'astroturfing' involving the theatrical or disc releases of Toy Story 2, Speed Racer and Spider-Man 3."
If you're a fan of content like Toy Story 2, Speed Racer and Spider-Man 3; Why would you care if they're astroturfing you? The content itself is bland, corporate and worse than the astroturf.
No, I'm guessing if that's the type of shit that you like (along with boy bands, American idol, Britney etc), you're already a 'consumer' and not a free thinking human being anyway. You can go eat your preserved McDonald’s chemicals and get your genetically diseased, roundup ready $8 popcorn and gallon of high fructose corn syrup when you watch your Hollywood consensus filth.
My guess is you'll end up a fat, boring, shallow, cancerous diabetic fuck who won't realize on their deathbed you've wasted your life away being stupid and getting poisoned and taken advantage of while having atrocities committed in the name of your cunt-numbing agnostic imbecility.
Most of you are the scum of the earth and nothing but impediments to my goal of exploring the knowable universe and sharing the experience with people who matter. You should just crawl in a corner and die now.
Wow, I just realized I need to go put a new nicotine patch in.
Liberty.