TechCrunch
is reporting that YouTube is now muting users videos that use a copyrighted
audio track (
an
example). For some time now the company has been fingerprinting audio tracks
and notifying users of infringement when they find a copyrighted song (I
received one of these in error, fought it and won). Until recently, the
copyright holder was able to choose between having the whole file removed or
making revenue off of ads placed on the content. But now YouTube seems to be
just stripping out the audio. WTF :-(
