Cost of Pre-Screening All YouTube Content: US$37 Billion

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @02:50AM from the assuming-screeners-are-omniscient dept.

Fluffeh writes "The folks that push 'Anti-Piracy' and 'Copying is Stealing' seem to often request that Google pre-screens content going up on YouTube and of course expect Google to cover the costs. No-one ever really asks the question how much it would cost, but some nicely laid out math by a curious mind points to a pretty hefty figure indeed. Starting with who to employ, their salary expectations and how many people it would take to cover the 72 hours of content uploaded every minute, the numbers start to get pretty large, pretty quickly. US$37 billion a year. Now compare that to Google's revenue for last year."

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Re:Well, if you pay people 100k a year to do it... by rgbrenner · 2012-05-30 03:07 · Score: 4, Informative

Why do they have to be paid $20,000? Why do they have to be American? Facebook pays it's Indian screeners $1/hour.
Re:Judges are necessary by Mister+Whirly · 2012-05-30 03:56 · Score: 3, Informative

Well to be fair calling someone a whore or asshole isn't illegal but "hate speech" is. Death threats are very illegal if they are deemed to be serious however.

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