A. How Would Crowdsourcing Work?
First, ISPs would devise programs like YouTube’s Content ID that would
separate clearly infringing works from works that present less clear cases of
piracy. This Note recommends following the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s
three strike policy217 for filtering the material initially. The Electronic Frontier
Foundation (“EFF”) is a nonprofit legal organization that advocates for free
speech, especially in areas of expanding technology.218 The EFF advocates for
a policy in which material would be removed when more than ninety percent of
that material matches the audio track and video track of copyright-protected
material.219 If material is automatically filtered out, human creators should be
given the opportunity to dispute this finding.220 This system would eliminate the
instances of clearly infringing material, the red-light-running material, quickly
and easily