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Youtube's setup, where anyone can claim any video, and the first line of defense creators have is to plead innocent to the same party making the claim, is the most user hostile (creator hostile?) thing I've ever seen.

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I've always found it funny that piracy still totally exists on youtube, but the pirates just add obfuscation techniques to prevent immediate takedowns.

Then you watch the "Important Videos" playlist (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7XlqX4npddfrdpMCxBnN...) and half the videos are taken down because the account had too many strikes. It's really sad.

Funny in a terrible sort of way. The legacy copyright industry follows the same logic as various drug war participants - winning means a loss of leverage to ask for more power.

Same discrepancy between reality and rhetoric. Stated goal: eliminate all of a thing for moral reasons. Actual goal: eliminate the easiest majority of a thing for economic reasons.

I've been tuning into an episode South Park, Family Guy, American Dad or The Simpsons LIVE recently. They look like straight torrent uploads so curious how they are getting around the filters... They have ads, so money must be being made for anyone to pursue this.

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