explainer · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Copyright: How It Went Wrong
CGP Grey · 4 HN recommenders · 4 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 4 months (2012–2020).
SignalTube analysis
Among 29 other explainer videos tagged Law, policing & justice, the mean is 2.6 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.5× that mean. Recommendations span 4 distinct months; the peer average is 2.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
44% of its 9 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2012–2020; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 5 minutes 10 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2011-08-23.
- Channel / speaker
- CGP Grey
- Verified runtime
- 5m 10s
- YouTube upload date
- 2011-08-23
- Hacker News mention years
- 2012–2020
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Law, policing & justice. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copyright: How It Went WrongCurrent video | 4 | 4 | 44% | — | 5m 10s | 2011-08-23 |
| YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.explainer · Tom Scott | 13 | 10 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 42m 29s | 2020-03-23 |
| YouTubers have to declare ads. Why doesn't anyone else?explainer · Tom Scott | 6 | 4 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 31m 48s | 2021-02-15 |
| The Machinery Of Freedom: Illustrated summaryexplainer · bitbutter | 4 | 7 | 53% | No recorded overlap | 23m 16s | 2012-04-04 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Supreme Court rules Georgia state law annotations not copyrightable [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Video on copyright and Disney lobbying.
The archive classifies this as a joke in “Snap’s Drop in Active Users Could Signal a Social Media Peak”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “How the US Pushed Sweden to Take Down the Pirate Bay”. Its short rationale: History of copyright and Disney's involvement.