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PostSubject: Lowlife Neo-Nazis cash in on YouTube advertising dollars    Lowlife Neo-Nazis cash in on YouTube advertising dollars  Icon_minitimeSat Jun 23, 2012 3:20 am

British neo-Nazis are using YouTube's revenue-sharing system on adverts to obtain payments from companies such as Virgin Media, BT and O2 without their knowledge or consent.

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By putting videos on YouTube, extremist groups including Blood & Honour and Combat 18 have been benefiting from the automatic addition of ads to their videos. Revenue-sharing agreements under Google's Adsense programme allow YouTube members posting non-copyrighted videos to benefit from ads on the page.

Some of the ad revenue is paid to the video owner and extremist groups have used this aspect of Google's business model to generate funding. When it was alerted to this, Google deleted the videos - but there is no indication it has put in place any protections to prevent a repetition.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/neonazis-cash-in-on-youtube-advertising-dollars-20120621-20psx.html#ixzz1ybBA7hqG
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