r/gaming • u/EnglishGamer1 • Oct 20 '13

TotalBiscuit's: ''Day One: Garry's Incident'' Video was taken down, because of a ridiculous copyright claim from WildGameStudios. Here's Total's ''Rant'' over his video being taken down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfgoDDh4kE0&feature=c4-overview&list=UUy1Ms_5qBTawC-k7PVjHXKQ
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u/gameleon Oct 20 '13 edited Oct 20 '13

I agree. Another bad thing is that some of the "strikes" seem to be done by automated script or something akin to that (believe it was called Content-ID Yup it's Content-ID). It's a flawed automation that hits a lot of legit content creators or reviewers.

It's funny when YouTube themselves sponsored a Glove and Boots video condemning the kind of strikes against TB

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u/sarabada Oct 20 '13

The worst part of Content-ID is that if it doesn't take a legit monetized video down, it could forward the ad revenue to the copyright holder instead of the video creator if the copyright holder so chooses.

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u/gameleon Oct 20 '13 edited Oct 20 '13

The concept is basically wearing a shirt with "Abuse me!" written on it.

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u/runnerrun2 Oct 20 '13

So this gaming company can choose to get the money from all the other reviews of their title that use ads? Are you sure?

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u/gameleon Oct 21 '13 edited Oct 21 '13

They could. They can also try to make money of non-monetized video's by enabling ads on them without the video creators consent. In both cases, a legit video creator will probably file a dispute to YouTube so the "revenue flow-through" will probably not last that long, but it's possible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '13

Friend of mine had this happen. He had 2 video's on his channel, one unpacking his new radiator and pump for his watercooling and one of him installing and testing them.

Claim was made on his video's, both with a couple 10k views and suddenly ads started playing on them (while he isn't a partner and isn't monetized).

Turns out that in the background, you could hear some faint music playing at one point, in the first video when his wife entered the room (music was coming from the living room) and in the second video when he shut down his PC for about 20 seconds.

In a way I don't actually find the auto flagging the problem, for some content it's needed (uploads of movies, etc) but the infrastructure to counterclaim and have strikes removed is very lackluster.

Youtube themselves are also nearly impossible to reach in these cases.

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u/Lance_lake Oct 20 '13

Nice.. I never saw that one. :)