The Impossibility Of SOPA  It has been suggested that if SOPA or
PIPA pass, then sites with user-generated content would need to
review it all manually for copyright violations.  What would it
look like for YouTube, if a reviewer had to watch every minute
of video?    • About 48 hours of video a minute is uploaded to
YouTube (that figure is from May 2011, so it’s probably more
now, but let’s go with that as a conservative estimate)   • 48
hours a minute is 483,840 hours a week   • If the reviewers
worked 40-hour weeks, you would need 12,096 of them (plus a
thousand or so more for holiday cover) – call it 13,000   • If
you paid them all at the US Federal minimum wage of about
$15,000, it would cost $195 million per year.  But, of course,
you couldn’t start the reviewers straight out of high school.
First, they’d need to watch the 100 years of video which has
been submitted to YouTube by content owners, so they knew a
copyright violation when they saw one. (They wouldn’t be able to
detect copyright violations o