![]() YouTube videos stream really well even on poor connections, so that makes sense - but YouTube is also easy to search, and pirated files are taken down quickly, so this is surprising, right? It turns out that the pirates found a simple workaround - the videos are simply uploaded as unlisted, so they don't turn up in search results. ![]() But as evident from the ongoing abuse, it seems to be falling short. What's interesting though is that while at times pirates upload full movies to Google Drive or other cloud services, in other cases, these Google Drive links are empty and just have a YouTube video embedded. The company on its part introduced hash matching, a mechanism to detect infringing content, earlier this year. Each DMCA requests had listed a few hundred Google Drive links that the content owners wanted pulled. Google Drive seems most popular among such users, with nearly five thousand DMCA takedown requests filed by Hollywood studios and other copyright holders just last month. ![]() Cloud storage services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, and Kim Dotcom's Mega are some of the popular ones that are being used to distribute copyrighted content, according to DMCA takedown requests reviewed by Gadgets 360. As crackdown on torrent sites continues around the world, people who are pirating TV shows and movies are having to get a little more creative.
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