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The problem with this kind of thinking is that yes, while content ID does catch a lot of false positives, and yes, it results in creators being dinged for no reason, the reason it was created in the first place was that too many people were abusing YouTube to distribute pirated material. It's the same cause/effect here with CloudFlare, too many people are abusing the anonymity Tor provides to do shitty things to their network.

It's not as if CF set out to screw over Tor users, by the nature of Tor they'd have no way to do it with any kind of ease. Tor traffic just happens to have a whole lot of bad actors using it and that causes the reputation of those IP's to down.




Content ID was created because Google wanted Hollywood content and Hollywood wanted to externalize costs.

Copyright in the context of the internet has costs that can only be paid by innocent people. It will either have many false positives or many false negatives. So the question is whether those costs should be paid by the innocent people who benefit from the system that created those costs or the innocent people who don't.




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