The brilliant minds at Google did it again. Now they had this system for awhile. Basically, it checks your video for copyrighted content. But this new system checks your old videos.
Why is this bad? Fraudulent copyright claims are popping up. For example, Dan made a video listing that Valve, has flagged one of his videos due to having Portal 2 content… yet, according to Valve’s official info about doing videos with their content on YouTube, they say they are allowed, and even allowed to make money off of it… yet for some reason, he isn’t allowed according to that.
Obviously this can’t be the real Valve. But the problem is, you got to go through living hell to dispute the claim. If they counterclaim it, you have to actually get lawyers and go to court… over a fucking video on YouTube. That’s… that’s going way too far here.
And worse, if you lose, you got a nasty copyright flag on your channel, and it goes bye bye until it expires. This could happen to Dan (Nerd3), if this dispute doesn’t work in his favor. And that would mean, he’s literally “fired”.
So far, I haven’t received any flags for my only public video of me doing the snapshot for the MRT Server. Jeb could easily flag my video, having Minecraft content in it. Thank god he’s not anywhere as bad as what I’ve seen from other small channel YouTubers.
This new system is flawed. This is worse than needing Google+ to post a comment. This could potentially remove future YouTubers from the Earth… such as myself. Was thinking of doing a Terraria Let’s Play, but I’m too scared my videos are going to be flagged.
And I’m not even in it to make money. I just thought of doing it to finally give my channel a reason for its existence.