🌐 Thoughts about YouTube

Finally found a little bit of time to compose a post for you, my Telegram followers.

Recently, a YouTuber with 10K subscribers lisp received 3 consecutive false copyright strikes, which scheduled his channel for deletion in one week time.

I'm not here to judge and point at who's in the wrong, the situation seems like a common Discord drama.

One thing certainly stands out, though - the antagonist of that story abused the horrible, awful horrible YouTube's copyright system. The idea is very simple - they went for a blitzkrieg, false-flagging 3 videos with 3 separate DMCA acts in the span of a few days. That shows clear intention to take down lisp's YouTube channel instead of defending copyright.

And what do you think, all three DMCA strikes were successful! It baffles me how it didn't trigger any sort of a validity check after multiple strikes have been sent by the same claimant. Now lisp is given 1 week to resolve their strikes before their channel is terminated. Since the copyright system abuser managed to succesfully apply 3 strikes in mere 3 days, there are at most 10 days for the counter-notification process before termination. But here's the deal. The counter-notification usually takes 10 US business days to process if the claimant ignores the invitation to the court (basically, 2 weeks in official jargon).

So, if the math is right and YouTube does not intervene, the copyright abuser has successfully taken down a YouTube channel due to personal grudge. lisp doesn't have enough time to follow through with the strikes, as YouTube requires to resolve any of the strikes within a single week, while the lifting process takes at least 2.

This is a horrible precedent that's going to cause more drama and many more headaches in coming years. I am closely following through that story and cheering for lisp. That's what I talked about in the follow-up to "YouTube wants to terminate my channel" video, and it shows that the situation with copyright abusers is slowly spiralling out of control.