YouTube: back entire movies illegal

The Wall Street Journal noted the launch of hundreds of movies in full including feature films from studios such as Disney, Sony, Columbia or Tristar. Put online is not illegal because of these studios.

In reality, this is not really a resurgence of this phenomenon on YouTube. A simple search on for example the Google search engine allows for many months to get a "free cinema session".

This also applies to entire movies with sound in French. On Facebook, several pages of the rest of users can keep abreast of some updates online. It may be more or less recent productions.

Following the publication of the WSJ article, several Disney films including the classic cartoons were eventually blocked. For this, the studio has used the Content ID system.

With Content ID, the owners have the ability to manage the use of their content. Embedding all or part of protected content, video illegal on-line can be identified via a confrontation with reference files.

Technology "works" but it is "not always used correctly" and some studios "forget to block illegal content" according to the WSJ. American national newspaper adds that the uploaders are able to tweak. They "manipulate audio or video to avoid detection by the system."

The Motion Picture Association of America - which represents the interests of the U.S. film industry - said to be aware of the problem and hope to work with YouTube to resolve.

Remember that YouTube offers a perfectly legal movie rental.