![]() There are two fundamental facts that make stopping copyright infringement extraordinarily difficult: First, sending bits is very, very much cheaper than identifying what they represent and whether it's infringing. Okay, they're in non-extradition countries or are using anonymizers. The file locker takes it down as soon as the copyright holders identify it, but then the infringers just upload it again in ten minutes. So there is a ton more infringing stuff on the general purpose sites. You don't know what a password-protected RAR archive has in it, you can't fingerprint it. They also have a screening system which does fingerprinting etc., which keeps a lot of infringing stuff off (and also keeps plenty of non-infringing stuff off when there are false positives.)īut you can't even do that when your service is general purpose rather than specific to video. So YouTube has a lot of infringing stuff on it. YouTube to preemptively screen all uploads for infringement by hand. The issue with file lockers is this: The service that actually hosts the file doesn't know what it is. What do you expect the law to prohibit? Encrypted data?
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