Comment: Expensive (Score 1) 343
Even if you don't use judges at $117K a year, this would be pricey. The summary says 72 hours of content every minute. That's 37,869,120 hours of content a year. Let's round up to 38,000,000 hours (to account for breaks, needing to watch videos a second time in cases of tough calls, etc). Even at $10 an hour, this would be $3.8 billion. Last year, Google made about $39 billion in revenue. So this system would cost 10% of Google's revenue. And I highly doubt that $10 an hour pre-screeners would be able to make tough copyright calls. Videos would be denied when they should have been approved. Other videos would be approved when they should have been denied. It'd be a billion-dollar mess.