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Lady Gaga has lost several millions of views on YouTube after the site cleared out what were considered \u201cfake statistics\u201d built by bots and hackers. Some lesser known YouTube channel owners have used bots as a way to beef up their view counts, but Lady Gaga is not one of them. <\/p>\n
Lady Gaga encountered the sudden drop one month after the Sony and Universal YouTube pages were stripped of 2 billion YouTube views. YouTube decided that videos migrated to their VEVO pages were \u201cdead videos.\u201d A small portion of the loss is the result of what YouTube calls \u201cde-spamming the data.\u201d Most of what affected Sony and Universal was a result of Sony, Universal, and EMI\u2018s decision to bet on VEVO.<\/p>\n
VEVO is owned by Sony and Universal Music Group. According to the Huffington Post, other artists affected by YouTube\u2018s bot sweeps include Beyonce and Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson has no need of YouTube to maintain his fan base, but that\u2019s beside the point.<\/p>\n
According to E! Online, the decision was made last month. A YouTube spokesperson told Billboard at the time: \u201cThis was not a bug or a security breach. This was an enforcement of our viewcount policy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course, YouTube has been diligent in removing \u201ccopied\u201d videos since the beginning, with a massive public outcry when copyright infringement became the bane of a lot of lesser channels trying to cheat for more views.<\/p>\n
It had been popular on YouTube to upload official music videos to public-owned channels back then, even though the videos were sometimes illegally downloaded to begin with. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, copyright infringement due to illegal downloading is a major issue in the United States. YouTube\u2018s taking down of videos and channels was a direct attempt to eliminate the issue.<\/p>\n
In July 2011, around the time when copyright policies had started to relax a bit more, Lady Gaga\u2019s YouTube account was suspended and promptly restored. Google, who bought YouTube in its early days, declined to comment when a notice on her channel read that it was guilty of \u201cmultiple or severe violations of YouTube\u2018s copyright policy.\u201d <\/p>\n
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La cantante Lady Gaga fue despojada de 156 millones de visitas del canal de videos VEVO, el anunci\u00f3 fue hecho a finales de diciembre pasado, seg\u00fan los informes de la plataforma You Tube ten\u00edan reproducciones fraudulentas.<\/p>\n