margaret gould stewart: how youtube thinks about copyright.

“the scale and speed of this system is truly breathtaking—we’re not just talking about a few videos, we’re talking about over 100 years of video every day between new uploads and the legacy scans we regularly do across all of the content on the site. and when we compare those 100 years of video, we’re comparing it against millions of reference files in our database. it’d be like 36,000 people staring at 36,000 monitors each and every day without as much as a coffee break.”