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Porn Pirates Exploit Well-Known Loophole To Upload Raunchy Videos On YouTube (thenextweb.com)
Adult video websites appear to be exploiting a YouTube loophole to host explicit material on the platform. An anonymous reader shares a report on The Next Web: A number of adult streaming websites have begun using a known backdoor that ultimately makes it possible to store infringing material on Google's servers -- entirely free of charge. To pull this off, the pirates essentially take advantage of YouTube's option to upload content without sharing it publicly, which effectively allows them to embed the videos on their websites and bypass Google's Content-ID takedown system. This means the content remains unlisted on YouTube and is served directly from the GoogleVideo.com domain instead. While the move hasn't gone unnoticed by the porn industry, California-based adult content-maker Dreamroom Productions claims it has made it much harder for producers to hunt down and flag infringing material, since the videos are not shared publicly.
what do you mean? there is porn on the internet? when did this happen?
Title says porn. Hehe.
> California-based adult content-maker Dreamroom Productions claims it has made it much harder for producers to hunt down and flag infringing material, since the videos are not shared publicly.
Of course it's harder to find infringers when they aren't advertising to you that they're doing it.
Like water flowing downhill, porn always finds the fattest pipes.
>Write an article like this without links
Shameful
This has been a known loophole for almost six years.
I love exploiting the hole in the backdoor
Something like this should also effectively prevent the UK porn filter from blocking off the videos, since it's actually served from the same domain of youtube.
Another note about the story: Link or I don't believe it... :D.
'bypass Google's Content-ID takedown system'
Citation needed.
I've had several videos uploaded to YouTube, and left private, never published (slideshows with music for family). They've had their audio flagged by the ContentID system and removed.
Why does "Donald Trump Wins US Presidency" show up in the Slashdot Related Links for this article? (CAPTCHA: Thefts)
Me third peg leg be happy to see da booty!
Can't beat two girls playing with a big snake.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpmZKwTu6pI
Links please, or it didn't happen.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
You are a fuckwit.
California-based adult content-maker [...] claims it [...] made it much harder [...]
...harder for producers to hunt down and flag infringing material, since the videos are not shared publicly.
I've uploaded video of a dance routine that contained edited music – used under the Fair Use provision of the law.
It was not publicly shared.
That didn't stop the music owner from having it taken down.
I have to wonder how the music owner would otherwise have found it unless Google/Youtube themselves told the music owner about it.
That a business can use google's services for free, isn't a loop-hole. That's google's business model.
That google offers free hosting for your business's private web-site isn't a loop-hole. Again, that's google's business model.
That google doesn't ID or take down private-yet-infringing content isn't a loop-hole. Again, that's google's business model.
Looks like we've found the loop-hole after-all: google is allowed to provide free hosting of illegal content. I guess that's in-line with most pimps -- pay the girl.
Isn't this exactly megaupload's case? They were a legitimate service for storing and sharing files publicly and privately, just like youtube. They had a takedown system and were compliant to the DMCA, just like youtube. But not enough for the content "owners" liking, like youtube. Their system was used for piracy some of the time, just like youtube (and the proportion BS people tell about torrent sites does not apply here, the legitimate use was huge).
If the US had a decent prosecutor, he/she would go after Google with the same methods and arguments used in megaupload's case. To lose the case, of course, and set some precedents for the small people and the foreigners (Kim is anything but small).
American imperialism sucks.
.. and wow....
I've been storing heaps of videos on youtube this way, rather then storing them on my server.....
been doing it for years......
not new
> Is that like the Planned Parenthood people who were "caught" selling baby parts, except they weren't?
The Selectc Investigative Panel Final Report seems to contradict you on that one.
I remember youtube taking down the account of a vintage tech guy named shango066, apparently without a reason. Later they said that it was taken down automatically, because he had a huge pile of unpublished videos (he edited them online, but didn't delete the raw material), which was a violation of their end user aggreement whateveryoucallit.
Actually, I might have to watch several such videos, just to make sure that it is not a fluke.
I've seen a bunch of pirates embed movies/videos with the YouTube player. It's definitely not a copy, since they're coming from Google's servers.
People are using Google's Drive's free storage to upload videos and serve them out on websites.
I once uploaded a self-captured 2 minute sequence from Doctor Who to Youtube. The video wasn't just unlisted, but it was private. The title was some random noise like "X". I had 2 or 3 views, because I uploaded it to show a friend the scene in the context of a chat we were having and then I totally forgot about it. Yet after a few months after uploading it I get an email from Youtube telling me that they found infringing content in my account.
Surely they can find unlisted porn too?
"Everybody's naked underneath" -- The Doctor
Which part? That he's being released in May? :( or released in May? :)
Which part? That he's being released in May? :( Or released in May? :(
Now, when I Google "back door pirates" all I get is references to this damned story.
Have gnu, will travel.
Here's a simple trick. Search for some popular show on YouTube, such as "Bill Maher Real Time" and then select the filter for "Upload date". Your results will include lots of pseudo-pirate computer-pwning hits.
These accounts are created constantly on YouTube and this has been going on for many years. A typical account will have lots of videos that are supposed to be the popular shows, but each video just says YouTube blocked the video and promises the suckers that they can get the actual videos by following the links and installing the software to pwn their computers into zombie networks. Generally annoying, but it especially bothers me that a lot of these videos are popular with children, and targeting innocent children strikes me as a higher level of EVIL, even for the monster that the google has become.
There are some obvious countermeasures, but rather than implement any of them, YouTube has chosen to tolerate, perhaps even encourage, this situation for some years. My conclusion is that YouTube believes they are deriving profits from supporting these criminals. (Perhaps they're selling them bandwidth?) I don't think google employees are naive and innocent as the children who are getting victimized, and it would make me a bad person to hope that their own kids click on the links.
Just reading Googled , another history of the google with emphasis on the "Don't be evil" thing. I think that google needs to hire a chief exorcist.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
The report I read had patients tricked into giving consent, it had them making large profits from selling particular parts and modifying the procedure to procure those parts (who cares about the patient?) and it says they have videos. Some of the information indicates that these modified procedures result in birth, which means it's legally a baby, no matter how much you'd rather dehumanize them.
By my count, that's both "caught" and "selling baby parts."
> do the needful and take an esl class currycakes
Thank you. Knowing that bigots like you hate me makes it more worthwhile.
If you want to know whether Kim Dotcom is guilty, look at his license plate.
Mega was designed for, and heavily advertised, unlawfully uploaded videos. The owners actually unlawfully uploaded copyright-protected content themselves, and discussed a reward system to get people to unlawfully upload more infringing material. Mega was a service designed and operated for illegal activity.
Youtube is a place for cat videos.
Someone *could* have used Mega for some legal activity, just as they *could* use a pipe bomb in a legal way. However, if you sell online "pipe bomb kit for anarchists - fight back against the government", you'll rightfully end up in handcuffs.
What's so hard about finding "oooo", "oh god" etc in videos?
I don't know for sure, but I thought they had a method for fingerprinting songs that made it (relatively) simple for them find copyrighted audio in video audio tracks.
Since each porn star has a different voice, coupled with background music or sounds, it's they'd have to fingerprint the audio from every porn movie.
Plus I always thought that porn was detected more or less by people flagging the videos as porn if they weren't detected by more obvious screening methods (ie, keywords or something in the titles).
I found a series of German TV documentaries from the late 1960s/early 1970s on YouTube about the "german youth" that had pretty explicit sex and nudity, more explicit than I had ever found in YouTube. They had been posted for years with thousands of views and I was kind of surprised they had kicked around that long.
I guess I would assume that private, unshared content on YouTube would be subjected to all the usual automated scanning plus a higher than normal level of human review since it seems like an ideal way to swap prohibited content on Google's dime.
I've also wondered if it would be possible to use video content as a means of storing data while having it survive re-encoding. Tivo used to buy time on a cable network at night and broadcast a kind of flash block pattern that was decoded into data.
> lot's of people in jail for a long time i guess with all that proof.
Does the timing of the release of the report not tell you anything? :)
FWIW, I don't really care about your words. I've already been called every racist epithet there is by people like you.
Sorry bud. This is another area where things are flying over your head. There is bigoted, where you don't hire currycakes. Then there is funny, such as going off on an indian rant in response to a guy named "Xeno-Graphic." I know, you don't get the joke, because your brain is literally physically not working properly.
I do find it amazing that you are so clearly wrong, have shown zero to back up your claim of what the report has found, and keep posting semi-related things in response to all the comments here. Are you religious by chance? You have the same type of circular logic and non-response manner as religious idiots. Someone makes a point, then you reply to it with something that does not counter it, yet say "here's why you're wrong"
Normal people: this car is not moving because there is no gasoline
You: incorrect. it is not moving because gasoline is made from crude oil
waaaaaat.... it's like your brain is broken.
Do you not understand this? The things you say are not counterpoints. They are simply statements on the same subject matter. They neither agree nor disagree with comments you reply to.
What's interesting is you actually do rationalize your point of view with arguments that don't prove it. It must be a fun time living in your head. You are like some crazy bitch on her rag. Zero logic. Do you watch fox news a lot?
You have a problem with basic logic. So - are you from a southern state, are you religious but do basic IT so you think of yourself as progressive, and is your wife fat, and you fill your life with useless crap to take your attention from the fact that you're unhappy? From my experience observing people who are my personal clowns, your type of reasoning deficiency is something you've trained your brain to do. Your life sucks, but you are too much of a lazy loser pussy to fix it, so you remodel your house in response or watch some random people play sports pretending that somehow is important to you. Despite not fixing the actual issue, you train yourself time and time again that doing this other thing fixes it. You literally have destroyed your logic facilities in order to not blow your brains out from depression.
Fucking loser.
PS. I have noticed also how you change the subject in your replies. A subject line for a comment being a retarded invention aside, a subject is only valid for a top-level comment. The rest are replies to that subject. Have you never sent an email? Let me guess, you do that in emails too. Your brain is broken bud. There is something literally wrong with you that makes you awkward and weird. It's why you change the subject in a reply, and it's why you looked at the same report as everyone else and drew the opposite conclusion than everyone else.
HOLY CRAP! This guy still does not get the joke. No one's being racist here or a bigot, but someone is being xenographic. Preach your sjw crap on reddit. There are many people laughing that you are too stupid to get the joke. That in itself makes a second joke - you.
People like him are funny. People like you make themselves funny. Get it? Of course you don't.