Not that algorithmic copyright enforcement doesn’t impinge on fair use, I would still argue the bigger issue is that a police officer is taking an active measure to thwart constitutionally-protected accountability to the public, and is probably breaking the law himself as he violates the trust of the public. The ways technology can be abused by police to thwart accountability is important to recognize, but it’s only important here because police are abusing these tools with this goal in mind.
(Put plainly, we don’t blame electrical tape when police cover their badges with it.)
There are countless 1st Amendment Auditor videos on YT, where these morons abuse & harass police, post office employees, the general public, anyone who they stumble across. They deliberately seek to engineer confrontation, then post it for the clicks & views & that lovely YT revenue. Check out Auditing the USA (he’s called Glenn Cerio) if you have a strong stomach. On anti-1AA watchdog channels, such as Shrodinger’s Cat, it’s often suggested in comments that playing copyrighted music is one way to stop these losers uploading to YT. Looks like The Man has been watching.
I hope YouTube and others adds some video editing features to remove background music from cellphone videos. We have the technology, we just need a simple button anyone can use.
yes there is software that does this I’ve never used it used and sure most people who want to upload a video file of police have not either so it is, if i’m not mistaken, a strong barrier for the average uploader in the in the short term . Hopefully someone will the see need for an easy to use cloud service for this specific purpose… and hopefully the police don’t up the anti by starting to project copyrighted movies behind themselves when being filmed .
but in all honesty I think rubbing lemon juice on ones self to be invisible to the camera would be a better and more effective solution in that at least no would know about it it and thus avoid the Streisand effect.
Doesn’t Youtube just demonetize videos picked up by ContentID? It’s not the greatest if Sony music or whoever is getting the ad revenue for your video of police misconduct, but I don’t think it generally prevents you from uploading.
A bigger issue would be if the video got flagged up as “not suitable for all advertisers” which deprioritizes the video rank and makes it less likely people will see it. But I don’t think copyrighted music in the background is generally enough to trigger that.
None of this is first hand, it is just what I have gathered from people on youtube complaining about the system.
fast forward to 2025 it will become the new copyrighted police siren and the police lights will be replaced with 360 degree projectors showing copyrighted disney movies and maybe some honey boo boo episodes. kudos to the hacker who subverts their entertainment system and replaces the media with Michael Finnissy’s Piano Concerto no. 3 and John Waters Films.
Weaponizing music. Are they taking a cue from Apocalypse Now? Is there no depth to which these cowardly White racists will sink? They are the bottom of the barrel.
BTW, there are filters available in apps and online that can filter out music and leave voices, just as there are kareaoke filters that can remove voices and leave the music. So, this cowardly pig trick can be easily overcome.
Denis Leary’s “Asshole”? [Yes, the quotes are a necessary piece of punctuation much like the comma in “Let’s eat, Grandma!”]
If police sirens and lights started broadcasting copyrighted movies to try to stop videos of the police being posted online, I’d give it a day or two tops before those sirens and lights were hacked to show porn. Or maybe footage of police violence along the lines of the end of the Schwarzenegger film The Running Man.
Given that the whole point is to capture a conversation with the cops, that’s not exactly a solution. Neither is captioning, as you can add whatever captions you want - it’s no longer evidentiary.
Or maybe footage of police violence along the lines of the end of the Schwarzenegger film The Running Man.