Tuesday, 17 January 2017

Week 18 - 'Porn videos streamed 'via YouTube loophole'

'Porn videos streamed 'via YouTube loophole'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38652906

  • TorrentFreak found some sites had uploaded videos that did not show up on YouTube, but could be viewed on third-party websites
  • YouTube told the BBC its policies "prohibit sexually explicit content like pornography"
  • TorrentFreak reported that some websites had found a way to play secretly uploaded videos on their own external services, by streaming the raw data from googlevideo.com - a domain operated by Google
  • "Copyright infringers take advantage of a private-video-share setting," Dreamroom Productions told TorrentFreak. "They upload and store videos, and freely use them on third party websites to earn profits."
This article represents the issues of privacy and how censorship and regulation is an issue that is rising and becoming increasingly more difficult to filter out. Pornography is something that has always been an issue with the internet in general, however making the accessibility of it much more easier through mainstream apps like YouTube allows a younger, more vulnerable audience to access it and be exposed to it.

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