YOUTUBE CANCELS BILLIONS OF MUSIC VIDEO VIEWS
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Website is cracking down on 'faked' views
The website called it an enforcement of their viewcount policy, and the move saw Universal Records lose one billion views, with Sony losing more than 850 million.
YouTube said that they were trying to combat 'black hat' techniques, which is when hackers artificially inflate the views on a video, to make them seem more popular than they would otherwise be.
They said, "This was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our viewcount policy."
However, some of the record labels have said that they think it's down to the fact that they are moving their videos onto other websites.
Universal told The Daily Dot that their YouTube channel has been mostly dormant since it started to focus its videos on Vevo instead.
Universal previously had dozens of videos on its channel and is now left with five, none of which are music videos. Sony also lost videos, with just three left on the channel.
Leona Lewis lost nearly 24 million page views on her account.
The crackdown also saw hundreds of users claiming that they had their videos deleted due to a violation of YouTube's terms of service.
Item 4, Section H of YouTube's Terms of Service bans artifically inflating view counts.
The website called it an enforcement of their viewcount policy, and the move saw Universal Records lose one billion views, with Sony losing more than 850 million.
YouTube said that they were trying to combat 'black hat' techniques, which is when hackers artificially inflate the views on a video, to make them seem more popular than they would otherwise be.
They said, "This was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our viewcount policy."
However, some of the record labels have said that they think it's down to the fact that they are moving their videos onto other websites.
Universal told The Daily Dot that their YouTube channel has been mostly dormant since it started to focus its videos on Vevo instead.
Universal previously had dozens of videos on its channel and is now left with five, none of which are music videos. Sony also lost videos, with just three left on the channel.
Leona Lewis lost nearly 24 million page views on her account.
The crackdown also saw hundreds of users claiming that they had their videos deleted due to a violation of YouTube's terms of service.
Item 4, Section H of YouTube's Terms of Service bans artifically inflating view counts.
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Universal, home of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber, lost a total of one billion views. Sony was next in line, with the label backing such stars as Alicia Keys, Rita Ora and Labrinth losing more than 850 million views in a single day.
As part of the punitive measures that Google has taken against the three companies, all but five of UMG's published videos had been deleted from its channel, while the number of videos on Sony's channel was cut down to a meagre three.
With Google's crackdown on black hat views, the effects can be felt on more than 500 different official artist channels, including official channels for Chris Brown, Beyoncé and Michael Jackson.
The number of views attracted by YouTube videos are often regarded, these days, as unofficial music charting worldwide, so once it became clear that views had been falsified, fingers naturally pointed at the record
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moving videos to another site wont do anything they will be up loaded to youtube anyway
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Redund... Aww ? it
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So Ima assume Bieber's Beauty and the Beast and Gangnam style views are definitely inflated.
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Universal, home of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber, lost a total of one billion views. Sony was next in line, with the label backing such stars as Alicia Keys, Rita Ora and Labrinth
im shocked her wack ass had any views to begin with
i'd smash though -
The Recipe wrote: »So Ima assume Bieber's Beauty and the Beast and Gangnam style views are definitely inflated.
Don't forget how the state department inflated that kony video.
