[phailhaus]

The incentives today are crap. YouTube takes on a ton of liability if they get a valid takedown request but they leave it up, so the safest thing for them to do is immediately take down anything with a claim against it. This is obviously gameable by bad-faith actors.

[jackvalentine]

The thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them.

An actual DMCA compliant process is much more user friendly - https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...

[bacchusracine]

>The thing is YouTube’s takedown process _isn’t_ a DMCA one. It’s one they made up to satiate the media companies that were suing them.

That's the plan I think. In another ten, twenty years or so who is going to remember the law as written over the way that it has been interpreted? This has been an end-run around the law from the beginning.