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[Tellemurius]

that better be fucking Antarctic water in that bottle for that damn price

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It may not even come with water. Reminds me of the 10$ spherical icecubes.

[Max White]

I guess if your getting married to a recovering alcoholic they would be ideal...

[Solifuge]

So, just got hit by more bogus Copyright Claims on Youtube. Worst batch yet.
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What happens to an account that flags every video everywhere?

If someone is found to be misusing the Copyright Claims system, they lose their account. But due to the fact that accounts are not a limited quantity, they could make a new one. There's allegedly a system in place to prevent bogus Copyright Claims, but it certainly isn't foolproof. Moreover, most big-name Copyright Holders outsource video-flagging duties to dedicated Copyright-Claims-Filing Companies... people who are literally are paid to browse Youtube and flag videos. These people don't have legal training... they're just working a day-job at a desk somewhere.

As I said, though... Youtube is not a small company. They rake in 45 Billion dollars a year, off of content that people create and give them for free. That's 1/3 of Wal-Mart, IBM, or Shell Oil. They can afford to do better... and as the only real HD Media Streaming Service out there, they have a responsibility here to prevent this abuse from happening. What's more, they should not be taking advantage of the inability of most of their users to even consider filing a lawsuit, and monetize their own Transformative materials without their consent.

Spoiler: How Copyright Claims on Youtube work, in a nutshell: (click to show/hide)

** Step 1) A Copyright Holder, or "an agent authorized to act on a copyright-holder's behalf" files a copyright complaint against a video.

** Step 2) Youtube removes the video (allegedly after a short check, to prevent Unauthorized Copyright Claim Spam).

At this point, either...

** Step 3a) ...the ACTUAL copyright-holder can submit a counter-notification, which says "Sorry dudes, that claim was bullshit and that person can have their content back." Which rarely happens because the copyright holder stands to gain nothing, unless someone was trolling them by having them remove their own content

OR

** Step 3b) The person whom the claim was filed against submits a Claim Dispute, providing appropriate legal documentation (such as the Creative Commons License) or other certifications or proof of Fair Use (letters from Hanna-Barbara and Time Warner which legally allow you to invoke the trademarked name "Scooby Doo" on-camera, or a letter from Carlos Santana's Record Label that allows you to not have your videos audio deleted because you forgot to turn off the radio during your Vlog, etc.)

** Step 4) After this, Youtube makes a final decision internally, on their own authority rather than a legal one. Additionally, if they still disagree (which they did in my case by discarding my Claims Dispute and apparently not even reading it), there can be no more Claims Disputes unless you hire a lawyer and file a lawsuit against Youtube. And after claims are contested, Youtube has a nasty habit of letting the person who filed the Copyright Claim against you start monitizing your videos, as happened here: http://www.rebelliouspixels.com/2013/buffy-vs-edward-remix-unfairly-removed-by-lionsgate

[Loud Whispers]

that better be fucking Antarctic water in that bottle for that damn price

Limited edition bottled tap-water.

[Max White]

Strange, I was told it goes something like this, in the simplest of cases.
'X' makes a copyright infringement claim. Video goes down.
'Y' makes a counterclaim, video goes back up in 100% of cases, and Ys details are forwarded to X so if X still has beef, he can take it to the actual legal system.

Was I ill informed?

[Solifuge]

My videos have never been fully taken down. I've just lost the right to call my creative content Fair Use, and thereby lost my commercial rights to the content... which apparently means Youtube can henceforth use it for commercial purposes for themselves.

[Max White]

Ooh... Well that is a dick move.

[Xantalos]

Isn't that comparable to a guy walking into your house and saying because one of his billions of cars was stolen recently and it may or may not have been you who stole it he has the right to live in your house for free?

[Max White]

No, its more like he doesn't even own a car, somebody elses was stolen, so he lives in your house for free.

[Scelly9]

No, its more like he doesn't even own a car, somebody elses was stolen, so he lives in your house for free.

It's more like he rents out your house for free, since he's making money on it.

[Max White]

Ok, well, car actually.
Look, somebody, somewhere may or may not have had their car stolen, so this guy gets to rent your car out to other people, and you don't make any money from it, but he does, because it is fair. IT MAKES SENSE!!!

[Skyrunner]

This is the future!

[Ultimuh]

A thing that makes me nerdrage: People calling Hylians, Elves.
Sure it's nothing compared to other things on this thread, but still.

[Sirus]

A thing that makes me nerdrage: People calling Hylians, Elves.
Sure it's nothing compared to other things on this thread, but still.

Or fairies. Grrrrr.