Scouta Data: 14% of YouTube Videos Removed Due To Copyright Violation

Over the last few weeks we’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work to enhance the functionality of Scouta. One such chunk of coding checks to see whether a Favorite added by a member is still available, so that we can mark it as unavailable for everyones convenience.

Graeme ran a process last night to check all of the YouTube items that have been added to Scouta, and found that an amazing 14% of the videos are no longer available due to copyright violations.

Admittedly, that number might not be as high right across YouTube, because Scouta Favorites tend not to be user generated content.

Regardless, the number is significant, and must take a large amount of work on YouTube’s side.