YouTube cracks down on sex spam videos

[Bulldog Force]

YouTube cracks down on sex spam videos

http://www.smh.com.au/news/technolo...sex-spam-videos/2008/12/03/1227980054918.html

YouTube is cracking down on videos like this one.

YouTube has announced that it is cracking down on "sexually suggestive" videos in a bid to clean up the popular video-sharing website.
In a blog posting, YouTube, which already bans pornography, said it would be enforcing a "stricter standard for mature content" and "tightening the standard for what is considered 'sexually suggestive'".
"Videos with sexually suggestive (but not prohibited) content will be age-restricted, which means they'll be available only to viewers who are 18 or older," the Google-owned website said.
"Our goal is to help ensure that you're viewing content that's relevant to you, and not inadvertently coming across content that isn't."
YouTube said videos which contain sexually suggestive content or profanity would no longer appear on its lists of "Most Viewed" or "Top Favorited" videos.
The internet's top video-sharing site also said it would step up enforcement of rules banning misleading descriptions in the tags and titles of a video.
In addition, thumbnails will be will now be algorithmically (ie randomly) selected in order to cut down users who manipulate frames within their videos in order to get a provocative thumbnail to appear with their video listing.
Some YouTube users have been known to give videos misleading titles such as "sexy" in a bid to increase the view counts of a particular video.
YouTube, which receives 13 hours of video from users every minute, said repeat violaters of the new rules will have their accounts terminated.

 

[Simo]

said repeat violaters of the new rules will have their accounts terminated

Is this like an ebay account where you just sign back up with new name?

 

[Bulldog Force]

Is this like an ebay account where you just sign back up with new name?

I think Youtube will not allow it as they'll completely block your IP address from creating a new account. They are more secure than they used to be.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

lol ip addresses mean sh*t when you can work a proxy

 

[Bulldog Force]

Are you willing to go through a proxy everytime just to visit Youtube?

 

[Timmah]

The trouble spammers and pornographers go to - of course. Are you really that stupid?

 

[Danish]

So essentially this means that there will be no more sexy stripper wannabes showing off the moves they picked up at pole dancing class anymore??

 

[Dutchy]

Damn Danish... Just Damn

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Are you willing to go through a proxy everytime just to visit Youtube?

LOL

do you realise how easy it can be done? ... i have a program that can automaticaly switch my IP on IE every 30 minutes ... it's not like we're talking about cracking the da vinci code

 

[TooheysNew]

IP isn't the only way of tracing.

 

[Simo]

LOL

do you realise how easy it can be done? ... i have a program that can automaticaly switch my IP on IE every 30 minutes ... it's not like we're talking about cracking the da vinci code

Im no computer genious but isnt there 2 IP address, 1 from your local machine and 1 from your ISP, the latter you cant change (hence its impossible to be completey invisibly on the net)?

If the above is true could they not somehow block the ISP ip address?

I also could be very confused and have it all wrong....

 

[simmo1]

Out of all the sites out there, why the f**k would you go to JewTube to look at porn?

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Im no computer genious but isnt there 2 IP address, 1 from your local machine and 1 from your ISP, the latter you cant change (hence its impossible to be completey invisibly on the net)?

If the above is true could they not somehow block the ISP ip address?

I also could be very confused and have it all wrong....

i got IP banned from a forum and made a secondary account to test the proxy and bypassed the ban once i cleaned my cookies and internet files and all that

 

[TooheysNew]

Just because you can bypass an IP ban on one piece of forum software doesn't mean you can on all.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

i was highlighting the point it can still be done ...

 

[TooheysNew]

On that forum software, yes. On YouTube - probably not as easily.

 

[Azkatro]

I'm led to believe that YouTube is making use of unreleased technology which in fact takes your fingerprint from your keyboard and/or mouse (every keyboard and mouse manufactured in the last 10 years records this information). So once they've got your fingerprint (and they do the second you first visit the site) that's it.

 

[Bulldog Force]

So essentially this means that there will be no more sexy stripper wannabes showing off the moves they picked up at pole dancing class anymore??

I don't know about things like dances and stripe teases unless they bear all. Possibly if it's enticing and spam, yes.

 

[TooheysNew]

I'm led to believe that YouTube is making use of unreleased technology which in fact takes your fingerprint from your keyboard and/or mouse (every keyboard and mouse manufactured in the last 10 years records this information). So once they've got your fingerprint (and they do the second you first visit the site) that's it.

GeekWeekly?

 

[Azkatro]

GeekWeekly?

Pfft.. Tinfoil Hat Monthly all the way