junior juniper
This post is to gauge the Swarm's interest about creating a tracker of Karaoke songs that have been plagued with copyright issues, and how frequently they are targeted, using the power of statistics, Swarm beacons, and scripting.
If you are somehow not aware about the state of Neuro karaoke songs right now, as of the time of publishing this:
- Several Neuro karaoke archivers on YouTube have been taken down entirely.
- Swarm FM has been taken off YouTube (partially due to supposed policy strikes, but they have also been affected by copyright problems on a regular basis)
- You can download the karaoke songs from #1337588612845539349 (the official archive is being deprecated), but this only covers personal use cases. This also doesn't have the videos.
- The operator of #1368988213624049774 is attempting to get the videos on a hard drive right now to host separately, since previously they were relying on a now-gone YT channel.
- There is also a chance for some karaoke VoDs to disappear for the same reasons as the YouTube channel.
A while ago (start of this year I think), me and someone else started working on a public API to provide and track takedowns of karaoke songs. Largely due to the sheer quantity of songs with more coming out every 2 weeks, combined with the constant need to manually track everything, on top of having to write scripts to update it, not even mentioning that both of us had our own life issues and other projects, led us to abandon it, and it's been sitting privately ever since. But, due to the state of karaoke songs right now, I'm open to reviving it so long as I can get a few more people to help with the project.
Any helpers? Or even if you would be interested to see which songs are safe to use and which aren't, you can express interest too.
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