Discussed yesterday:<p><i>Police officer plays Taylor Swift song to keep a video off YouTube</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27702325" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27702325</a> - July 2021 (304 comments)<p>Also related (thanks thamer):<p><i>Multiple Beverly Hills PD officers now weaponizing copyright against streaming</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114959" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26114959</a> - Feb 2021 (244 comments)<p><i>Police playing music while being filmed, seemingly to trigger copyright filters</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26082303" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26082303</a> - Feb 2021 (487 comments)
This looks awfully like an idea from a dystopian cyberpunk fiction book. The title brings together the total surveillance, powerful corporations, and the social problems.
Here's an idea for a song they should play:
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ</a>
An arms race, then. We need a service that does the minimum audio modification necessary to ensure the music can't be recognized by YouTube's copyright algorithms.
As I wrote in a similar thread the other day, a possible solution would be to upload the video with a different audio track containing just a fsk encoded timecode plus location of the real one on a decentralized p2p network. Then a browser extension could pick the real audio track and play it in sync with the video in a transparent way.
An idea. By filming that creative cop I am providing witness services, basically volunteer job for the Government. Should be free from copyright conditions then.
They can say whatever they want. But it just shows that they're scumbags without the trace of honor and integrity.<p>Normally they must be immediately sued for playing copyrighted music in public while on duty. Unfortunately the big brother had decided that the government is immune to to copyright violations.<p>I am pretty sure that Russia / China and whole bunch of other countries will be more than willing to host it on their video services.<p>Congrats.