Starfire
Member
Hi,
I'd like to ask a few knowledgeable people here their views on if some guidelines are being violated, if not in the letter than in the spirit.
I make and post a few travel videos, and frequently I see another person uploading a bunch of garbage videos on the same location - nearly all content taken from someone else's photos and video (the picture quality varies from good to god-awful, and there is no way the person has been to the hundreds of places the person is uploading about. AFAIK, none of the swiped content is mine, so I can't throw a copyright complaint).
That alone is not the issue - the person is using multiple accounts, the content is virtually identical, and the person is uploading 2+ videos for each place (in total scores of the same places) - and the videos are tweaked just enough to get around Youtube's system which blocks duplicate content being uploaded.
I looked in the guidelines and can't find anything explicitly preventing such actions, but does this in essence constitute a "deceptive practice"? The person has at least 5 accounts, and 3 are used for different languages so I'm not focusing on those, but 2 are in English and basically rehashing the exact same video content.
Any views?
Thanks in advance.
I'd like to ask a few knowledgeable people here their views on if some guidelines are being violated, if not in the letter than in the spirit.
I make and post a few travel videos, and frequently I see another person uploading a bunch of garbage videos on the same location - nearly all content taken from someone else's photos and video (the picture quality varies from good to god-awful, and there is no way the person has been to the hundreds of places the person is uploading about. AFAIK, none of the swiped content is mine, so I can't throw a copyright complaint).
That alone is not the issue - the person is using multiple accounts, the content is virtually identical, and the person is uploading 2+ videos for each place (in total scores of the same places) - and the videos are tweaked just enough to get around Youtube's system which blocks duplicate content being uploaded.
I looked in the guidelines and can't find anything explicitly preventing such actions, but does this in essence constitute a "deceptive practice"? The person has at least 5 accounts, and 3 are used for different languages so I'm not focusing on those, but 2 are in English and basically rehashing the exact same video content.
Any views?
Thanks in advance.