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by Karunamon 4898 days ago
You can, but good luck. Filing a counternotice gets you the name (and I think the IP address) of the person that filed the notice, but considering that #1 is just a form input box and #2 is useless for identificiation purposes...

This was likely the act of someone with an axe to grind, not any violation of YouTube policies.
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jacquesm 4898 days ago
This is the counter notification section of youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/t/copyright_counter

The final line reads:

> We may then reinstate the material in question at our discretion.

So it's a toss-up if they're actually going to do something but they will reveal your information to the party that claimed infringement. That seems to be a pretty lousy deal.

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gknoy 4898 days ago
Doesn't your account also get wrecked after you've received a certain number of takedown requests, regardless of their validity?
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mitchty 4898 days ago
Yeah I believe it is up to 3. So basically 3 cries of wolf are enough to get any youtube account closed.

Seems fair. /joke

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MichaelGG 4898 days ago
It is an offense for a party to DMCA takedown content they do not own the rights to. This is assuming it was a DMCA takedown and not YouTube's internal system which doesn't have the same protections the DMCA provides.

Not that it makes it necessarily feasible, but at least there is an option.

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