Yep, and it makes sense. Why not pay a small team of regular users to sit around and look for violations?

LOS GATOS, Calif. — A lot of people watch YouTube videos at work. A few are actually paid to do it.

A former bartender named Joe Bersik sits in front of a flat-screen monitor about eight hours a day, pulling up Internet videos. His job is to find pirated material and get it taken off the Web.

Mr. Bersik works at BayTSP Inc., an eight-year-old start-up with big clients like Viacom Inc., the parent of MTV Networks. BayTSP employs more than 20 video analysts — sometimes called “hashers” — who watch videos looking for copyright violations.