I understand your pain, but I do believe this can be still solved with a technology, they just have to care. For instance fair use is very hard to identify accurately but it's not impossible. There is less than 0.01% cases when it can't be decide automatically (still a huge number though) and those should be reviewed by people.
YouTube's problem is that there is no interested to improve the product (content id). Technology is good enough, but the product itself sucks.
Full disclosure, I'm heavily biased as I built my company on their (and others) inefficiencies.
> I do believe this can be still solved with a technology, they just have to care. For instance fair use is very hard to identify accurately but it's not impossible. There is less than 0.01% cases when it can't be decide automatically.
Fair use is not a definition -- it is a legal doctrine. Conclusively determining whether a video is fair use not only impossible for a computer, it is impossible for people. The only way to determine whether a video falls under fair use conclusively is to conduct a Federal trial and a series of appeals.
YouTube's problem is that there is no interested to improve the product (content id). Technology is good enough, but the product itself sucks.
Full disclosure, I'm heavily biased as I built my company on their (and others) inefficiencies.