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Subject: YouTube Kills Billions of Video Views Faked By Music Industry
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The video service deleted more than 2 billion fake video views in the channels of Universal, Sony, and RCA, according to Daily Dot. The decision apparently was made when YouTube found out that the companies were using view building services hired from sites such as Fiverr to create video views that never existed.

Sony/BMG's was hit the hardest with views dropping from a total of more than 850 million to just 2.3 million. RCA declined by 159 million views to a total of 120 million. Universal lost more than 1 billion views and now stands below 6 billion.

Google confirmed that the companies violated its terms of services, which prohibits users from artificially inflating video views. Google noted that the view stripping was "an enforcement of [the company's] viewcount policy".

Services that promise the perception of greater user exposure have become commonplace on the web. There are plenty of sites such as YouLikeHits, which allow users to increase the number of Facebook likes and Twitter followers. The tradition goes back to the news aggregation service Digg, which created services that would sell "diggs" to vote Internet content to the front page.

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  • 12.29.2012 2:07 AM PDT

Sometimes I am tempted to quit gaming. I can no longer play without seeing ponyphags, horrendously bad teammates and mexicans.

Gaming community, I want you to know that you suck.

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  • 12.29.2012 2:09 AM PDT
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Holy -blam!-!

Don't -blam!- with google.

  • 12.29.2012 2:09 AM PDT

Ima Bee

well done

  • 12.29.2012 2:11 AM PDT

nothing starts with n.

whoa, sony got screwed royally! preferential treatment my ass!

  • 12.29.2012 2:14 AM PDT

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Thats sad that people would do that.

  • 12.29.2012 2:23 AM PDT

心の中に弱い風が吹いています。


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Thats sad that people would do that.
People want money. Who knew?

  • 12.29.2012 2:26 AM PDT
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Nobody cares about anyone else's opinion - be it mine, yours, or a cult of angry star wars nerds - when they are enjoying what they enjoy.

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Everyone cares about opinions, that's why we socialize on a forum with strangers.

LOL

Greedy fat cats.

  • 12.29.2012 2:35 AM PDT
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''I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart. ''

I knew there couldnt be that many idiots listening to all that garbage.

Thats just sad.

[Edited on 12.29.2012 2:39 AM PST]

  • 12.29.2012 2:39 AM PDT