[jacquesm]

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.

[gknoy]

Doesn't your account also get wrecked after you've received a certain number of takedown requests, regardless of their validity?

[mitchty]

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

[MichaelGG]

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.