For SMD, which seems to sell movie downloads, the process goes something like this: 1. Find an interesting YouTube video 2. Add your own site branding and URL 3. Upload to an account and disable comments so no one complains about you taking their clips 4.
Services like Revver or Metacafe, on the other hand, who pay users for their content, do have a problem. Users who cheat the system into believing more people watched their videos, could steal a lot of money from them. For these services, it’s not the n
There are lot of ways to catch cheaters: * Do the views come from the same subscriber? * Did views skyrocket in a certain period with a steady instead of random growth rate? * Did a user view more videos in a period than possible? * Is the ratio of views/
The normal ratio for reviews to viewership is about 1:100 but many videos that rank highly for the day, are 1:3 or 1:2. In our casual observation, this seems to happen most in the morning, when we speculate that people are battling each other, jockeying f
