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YouTube Hack: Several High-Profile Videos Mysteriously Disappear From Platform, Some Defaced
Several high-profile music videos on YouTube were mysteriously deleted early Tuesday, in what appears like the result of a security compromise. Some of the videos that have been pulled from Google's video platform include Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee's "Despacito" -- which is also the most popular video on the platform. Users reported Tuesday that the thumbnail of the video was replaced by a masked gang holding guns, who identify themselves as "Prosox and Kuroi'sh." Several songs from DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Shakira, and Taylor Swift have also been either deleted or altered with. On Twitter, a person who claims to be one of the hackers, said, "@YouTube Its just for fun i just use script "youtube-change-title-video" and i write "hacked" don t judge me i love youtube." Google has yet to acknowledge the incident. Further reading: BBC.
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Several songs from DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, Shakira, and Taylor Swift have also been either deleted
Part of me is not exactly outraged. I'm thinking humanity might get ahead for a moment if the flux of stupid is interrupted.
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Funny, you forgot to quote this:
The hackers, calling themselves Prosox and Kuroi'sh, had written "Free Palestine" underneath the videos.
I would not be surprised if somebody had found a way to abuse the auto-removal of music. Perhaps enough complaints and they even remove those.
We know that Youtube has been blocking movies and sites without reviewing complaints or at least demonitized them. Thsi is how that works:
People put up a video of their own making with their own content. Somebody complaints and the content is (temporarily) demonitized till the maker notices and complaints. It will then be reversed.
The problem is that most videos will make the most money in the beginning. All those subscribers will look at the video and you will not get any money from them.
Then there are the videos that are auto-blocked because somebody send in that it was copyrighted without any proof whatsoever.
Could be either that or they pissed off enough people and now one is pissing back. That would be better news than them being hacked. How could they be hacked? Perhaps there finally was a person who was able to solve the Captcha questions correctly.
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Welcome to America where the opinion of someone whose only redeeming feature are a pair of nice tits and the ability to be autotuned to sound tolerable is actually considered important.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Since when are script-kiddies news?
Someone hasn't had their covfefe yet.
I find your concept that there could be "a wrong girl" intriguing.
whatever floats your boat, dude.
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From the pattern of the damage, those YouTube channels belonging to DJ Snake, Drake, Katy Perry, etc. probably are managed by the same record label marketing person. They probably just hacked into the computer managing these channels while the accounts are still logged in. Everything they did for the damage are something that channel owners could do: changing cover picture, video description, deletion. The actual video content itself hasn't been changed, which is exactly what content creators can't do to their videos, despite it being a popular request.
If they had really hacked YouTube, they may have been able to replace the video if they could pull it off, but since the videos are divided into chunks and aggressively cached by the CDN (as the videos are served over MPEG-DASH), they will probably get very mixed result at best with some chunks from the old video mixed with chunks from the new video.
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Examples cited in summary seems to me we're not missing much but maybe that's me as I'm not familiar with many of these names. I think there are plenty other options to get videos of today's major stars. It is the older ones (i.e. Connie Francis, Julie London) no longer on the Top 40 list (if there is such a thing these days) that would be a shame if that footage becomes lost.
Besides music there are many other interesting videos like techie stuff on how to implement various stuff, interesting documentary clips no longer shown on television both OTA and CATV. If this stuff goes, then it's back to old days of swapping VHS tapes.
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I don't think I've heard that expression before... what's the difference between that and "tampered with"?
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
The display of poor language skills is horrifying. Could Slashdot please find editors with the ability to briefly appear to be people of normal intellect and capability?
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How did you not just do that? Do you truly think that blaming Israel is truly different from blaming "the Jews"?
Of course it is. There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews, and even more non-Zionist ones. You don't even know that?
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