Archive for January 2009
14 Percent of YouTube Audio Taken Away By WMG?
I stumbled on a YouTube video with the alert: “This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.”
After I saw that, I wondered just how many YouTube videos had the same thing happen. So I did some googleing to try to find out. First, I searched:
GoogleSearch: “This video contains an audio track that has not been authorized by WMG. The audio has been disabled.” site:youtube.com
This returned 260,000 results. Keep in mind that the almighty Google search engine does not index every website, nor, I suppose, YouTube video.
Next, I searched for something that I think brings up all YouTube videos:
GoogleSearch: site:youtube.com “Video Responses:” “Text Comments:”
This returned 1,760,000 results.
If we assume that all videos are indexed randomly, then we can take the WMG audio killed videos (260,000) over the total videos (1,760,000) and get a proportion of WMG audio take down videos. This is roughly 14 percent.
This means that 14% of YouTube videos have no audio because of a WMG audio take down.
What do you think? Does this surprise you? Is my reasoning sound?
