Youtube finds way to combat illegal re-uploads

With the new feature, YouTube would run a scan after a new video is uploaded to see if there is any other video that resembles the uploaded video very much or is the same. 

If there is a “match”, it would appear on the “matches” tab, the company said in an official blogpost “We’ve been testing this tool with creators for nearly a year to make it safe and effective for the whole community,” the company said. 

If in case a match of an already uploaded content is found, the original uploader would have the option of getting in touch with the other creator or request YouTube to remove the re-uploaded content. The feature would start rolling out from next week to YouTube creators with more than one lakh subscribers. 

“As this is a powerful feature, we will monitor usage closely and will continue to expand over the coming months with the long-term goal of making it available to every creator in the ‘YouTube Partner programme,” the blog post said.