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    [–]DaAmazinStaplr 516 points517 points  (221 children)

    What’s considered a “big” channel though? I ask because just last month the band DragonForce had a copyright strike placed on their channel for a song called “Valley of the Damned”. They had to fight with YouTube for a few days to get the strike removed which was placed by some random guy named Gary George. The entire situation finally blew up on Twitter which is what caused YT to finally look into it and say it was a false strike.

    [–]shsks 582 points583 points  (180 children)

    The reality is that "big channel" in this case is pretty much synonymous with "channel makes Youtube lots of money, consistently"

    Dragonforce isn't anywhere near big on this scale. They have 1.3 million subs with 450 million total video views.

    MrBeast has 184 million subs (over 100x more) and over 32.5 billion total views. And that's just on the main channel. There's 4 other channels with over 100 million subs combined that run directly on the MrBeast brand.

    Dragonforce also don't upload videos as frequently as the MrBeast channels nor do they reach as many of the target audiences advertisers want to reach, as they specialise in making music in a specific genre. MrBeast pumps out clickbait designed to draw in as many demographics as possible.

    The unfortunate fact is if Dragonforce were to delete their channel one day, it wouldn't even cause a noticeable change in Youtube's figures.

    And this is just MrBeast. You've got to factor in every other channel MrBeast has a hand in, then all the other companies operating under the same model. Hell, even the human stains Jake and Logan Paul don't come close to MrBeast, but still have 20+ million subs and billions of page views each.

    The horrible fact is that Youtube will only protect those who personally make them money and will leave smaller and independent creators to fend for themselves unless they can work with a company/agency specifically to help them manage that relationship with Youtube.

    [–]AnOnlineHandle 211 points212 points  (20 children)

    A channel MumboJumbo has been putting out Minecraft videos multiple times a week for like a decade which in recent years get 1-2+ million views each.

    He had a 5 second song intro to his videos which he had permission to use. But somebody bought the rights to another song, which somebody did a cover of somewhere, which a piece of was remixed with permission into another song, which MumboJumbo used another part of for his video (and to be clear, the segment he used didn't have the remixed cover of some other song).

    They were still able to claim all his income for weeks with no help from youtube, and his only option was to go back and manually edit a decade's worth of videos in youtube's web video editor to remove the first few seconds.

    [–]jahnbanan 168 points169 points  (12 children)

    Slightly wrong, he did have permission to use it from the creator, but the problem was that the song samples another song that belongs to Warner Chappel, which the creator hadn't gotten permission for from Warner Chappel.

    Still complete shit that he had to go through that and seems extremely unfair.

    [–]Taolan13 53 points54 points  (0 children)

    What is complete shit is that the sample was less than five seconds long and tonally modified.

    "Manual detection" my left nut, Warner Shitheads.

    [–]Ajreil 52 points53 points  (2 children)

    When that happened Mumbo posted a Twitter screenshot showing that his decade of videos were getting claimed once every 30 seconds or so. If he wanted to appeal those, he would have to do it manually which takes like 5 minutes per video.

    Clearly the copyright holder was using an automated tool that Mumbo didn't have access to.

    [–]hearke 10 points11 points  (0 children)

    MumboJumbo??? Wtf, I love that guy, he deserves better.

    I mean, all of these small channels do but there's a special place in my heart for that guy, I spent a lot of time in highschool learning logic gates and doors from his vids.

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      [–]svesrujm 52 points53 points  (16 children)

      What is the appeal of MrBeast? Is it simply hey look I’ve got a ton of money. Watch me spend this money and give this money away to random people?

      Like I am seriously not seeing the appeal.

      [–]beirch 51 points52 points  (0 children)

      Yeah basically. But you're likely not a child, and therefore won't see the appeal.

      [–]DriftingMemes 18 points19 points  (9 children)

      Same. There's part of me that says "Oh, you're just getting old Drifting, that's why you think everything sucks."

      But then I watch some of what's popular. People screaming into a mic (literally). Folks clearly pretending to be scared stupid over a video game. Some dude buying things? (How is it fun to watch someone else be rich and do things you can't?) and I conclude, no, what's new sucks ass.

      [–]poet3322 15 points16 points  (2 children)

      (How is it fun to watch someone else be rich and do things you can't?)

      I mean, this isn't new. Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous was a popular show long before Youtube existed.

      [–]robotnique 6 points7 points  (0 children)

      /u/DriftingMemes is, in fact, just getting old.

      [–]Maxwe4[🍰] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

      And shit like MTV Cribs.

      [–]Roast_A_Botch 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      Dude I'm almost 40 and can assure you that PeeWees PlayHouse was making our parents say the same old people shit you are now. I have successfully not gotten old yet, despite my aging. We didn't come from some special place and time that never before, or will again, existed. Getting old just makes it feel that way.

      [–]Pantzzzzless 2 points3 points  (2 children)

      I was a kid in the 90s/early 2000s. The stuff kids watch now is no dumber than what I watched. There just happens to be more of it, and it is available 24/7 on anything with a screen.

      I guarantee if End of ze world, or Schfifty-five, or hamster dance, or Homestarrunner just now started to exist, most of us would say it sucks.

      [–]theholyraptor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

      Because you recognize it's all bs. But young kids enjoy some of the antics and also think "I'll be a rich influencer one day" as if it's a common day job. It's no different then models and young people thinking I'll be famous for my looks and be rich too.

      [–]at1445 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

      Initially it wasn't the "hey, I've got money." It was "Hey, I've made X off of the last video, so I'm spending X on this video". And he followed that mode forever, spending most (I think he claimed all, but i doubt it actually was) of his earnings into making the next one bigger and wilder.

      His videos are interesting usually. The ones where he actually helps people, I like a lot. Like giving away 1000 pairs of hearing aids to people all over the world. Those are actually feel-good videos. The ones where he shows an item/experience from spending 1 dollar on it up to a million (or more) are sometimes interesting. His challenge videos with random people can be fun (like the knockoff squid game), the challenge videos with just him and his buddies are less interesting (like him burying himself for 48 hours), to me at least.

      For the most part, he and his buddies are likeable guys though, and they used to seem like pretty normal people, so I'm sure that was a big part of the appeal as well. A regular kid who grinded it out on youtube and went from nothing to a lot, and brought his buddies along for the ride.

      [–]jelifah -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

      Have you seen the Squidgames one? I'm not saying they are all at THAT level, but the Squidgames one is incredible

      link for ease - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3GPea1Tyg

      [–]jert3 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

      If you don't get it, you aren't part of the target audience demographic.

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        [–]cosmos7 7 points8 points  (123 children)

        Hell, even the human stains Jake and Logan Paul don't come close to MrBeast, but still have 20+ million subs and billions of page views each.

        Must have been living under a rock because I've never heard of MrBeast. Those other dipshits though...

        [–]hfxRos 87 points88 points  (53 children)

        because I've never heard of MrBeast. Those other dipshits though...

        Because MrBeast has done a good job of avoiding controversy.

        He does his thing, makes his piles of money, and stays out of the news. In the little bit that I've seen he also comes across as more likeable. I don't know if that holds if you watch a lot more though.

        [–]ElectronicMoo 8 points9 points  (5 children)

        He's not the type that does shitty things or treats people shitty or stirs drama for attention. This means those that gravitate to that, probably less likely to have heard of him.

        I'm in my 50s. I subscribe to two channels (Steve mould, smarter every day) and I've heard of Mr Beast.

        [–]M3g4d37h 1 point2 points  (1 child)

        you should check out the why files my dude.

        [–]ElectronicMoo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

        I'll give it a whirl, thanks for the suggestion.

        [–]Theratchetnclank 1 point2 points  (2 children)

        If you like steve mould and smarter every day i recommend the following channels with a similar tone.

        Technology Connections - In depth about how many household items work.

        Stuff Made Here - He makes many crazy engineering projects and is very smart.

        Real Engineering - high quality engineering focused videos

        Veratasium - Science/physics videos

        Nile Red - Very high quality chemistry videos.

        [–]NaiveMastermind 18 points19 points  (42 children)

        He does his thing, makes his piles of money, and stays out of the news. In the little bit that I've seen he also comes across as more likeable. I don't know if that holds if you watch a lot more though.

        I would describe his content as "charity porn", and most people are too dumb to recognize it for the blatant exploitation that it is.

        [–]random_shitter 44 points45 points  (34 children)

        If you call it exploitation to give $10.000 for a 30 second clip which doesn't degrade the subject in any way I'm pretty sure at least 94% of humanity would love to be exploited.

        Kind of devaluating the term there, buddy.

        [–]FalseAnimal 5 points6 points  (20 children)

        I think people say charity porn not because it doesn't help people, it does, but because it's not addressing the bigger problems. Like sure some people got cataract surgery, that's great, but maybe we could push for Medicare for all.

        And I get it, that's not sexy, and it wouldn't get views but it wouldn't be as exploitative and potentially way more beneficial.

        Edit: lots of rich person boot licking in these replies. Y'all need to look up why billionaire philanthropy is at best wasteful and self serving, and at worst dangerous and harmful.

        [–]Lonsdale1086 19 points20 points  (4 children)

        but maybe we could push for Medicare for all

        Good idea, I'm sure Mr Beast will be able to do that.

        And in the mean time, those blind people should just wait it out, right?

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          [–]Stevely7 11 points12 points  (0 children)

          If you use your platform for something other than what created it, you're going to lose your platform. It has nothing to do with being sexy

          [–]ElectronicMoo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

          Let's also roast the girl scout little girls for not addressing world hunger.

          You are going out in a limb.

          [–]rickane58 7 points8 points  (0 children)

          Mr Beast doesn't write laws nor is he a representative. He's doing what he can to make people's lives better, and by all accounts his personal income seems to be outweighed by his charity. Go complain to the people who can make those changes you want to see, and leave the guy doing good on a personal scale alone.

          [–]M3g4d37h 2 points3 points  (0 children)

          billionaire philanthropy is first and foremost a tool to skirt paying taxes.

          [–]Chav 1 point2 points  (5 children)

          If it wouldn't get views, who would benefit?

          [–]jemichael100 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

          Oh damn a video about medicare will surely get millions of people to watch it! Are you that dense?

          [–]Ridstock -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

          If Mr Beast was to run for president would you vote for him? Those 1000 people who got free operations so they could see probably would, how about the 10s of 1000s he has fed with his foodbank donations. He didn't come from money and does philanthropic things that help people on the ground because he made loads of money with videos, not because he had loads of money to give. Throwing money into the void of politics hoping for change is pointless.

          But yea, he shouldn't have planted 1 million trees or removed 1 million tonnes of trash from the ocean because instead he should have just not made any videos and done nothing.

          [–]x777x777x -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

          Like sure some people got cataract surgery, that's great, but maybe we could push for Medicare for all.

          Imagine being such an asshole you're mad that hundreds of people got a surgery that they couldn't afford because it wasn't through your preferred method

          [–]Kurumi_Tokisaki -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

          Yeah but are you taking the stance of it has to be one or the other? The partially blind probably want to see more than caring about their longer term issues. It’s a part of the selfish short term nature ppl have. What’s the plan to fix that? Also getting mad cuz some ppl would rather see some help actually happen than some optimism in bureaucracy when the old folks in power are preventing real change and not 6 feet under yet.

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            [–]DriftingMemes -2 points-1 points  (6 children)

            It's more like "I spent 1 million dollars on sandwiches for the poor!" (and to make more money on my channel) when that money could be spent lobbying to make those million homeless people not homeless anymore.

            It's doing good in the most visible way possible. Yeah, it's still good, but You can't help but notice how much better it could be if it wasn't part of a popularity contest.

            [–]robotnique 4 points5 points  (0 children)

            You're running into a problem known as "perfect is the enemy of good." You can virtually always undermine any activity by arguing that there is a better, more altruistic, more efficient way to do something; ergo, doing anything other than that specifically mentioned best case scenario is now seen as somehow bad because it isn't perfect.

            It's best to temper these expectations, because what universally tends to happen is not that people then optimize for the most giving, or the best charity, but rather they become disenchanted and giving/charity on the whole decreases immensely.

            [–]Safe_Librarian 5 points6 points  (3 children)

            Lobbying does not really work like that. To Help all the Homeless people would cost billions of dollars. You think Mr Beast can buy that kind of leverage? You would have to find people willing to commit political suicide because giving out free money to certain citizens only is not a way to win many voters.

            [–]95688it 0 points1 point  (2 children)

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                [–]Arpeggiatewithme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                Dude I totally hope I get “exploited” and get 10,000$ or a Tesla or some shit. What a stupid take.

                [–]BeingRightAmbassador -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

                That's like saying that fundraising events are just "charity porn". Nobody cares except for the people complaining about "charity porn".

                [–]Primary_Sherbert8103 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                yeah I've watched a bit and he comes off as a really decent guy in his videos. many times donating money to needy causes/people, or just helping people out in his videos. Never being a nasty person or doing nasty things for clout/fame/etc.

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                  [–]Joeness84 16 points17 points  (27 children)

                  reminds me when pewdipie (?) was the biggest youtuber and everyone was talking about something with him and Im like "oh neat, Im not with it anymore!"

                  Mr Beast usually comes up with some controversy lately, hes been doing like "1000 deaf people get to hear for the first time" where he pays for a bunch of cochlear implants, some people are like "yay good thing" others are like "way to exploit these people for views" I kinda get both sides, but the views pay for the implants, soooo yeah ?

                  [–]Jukka_Sarasti 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                  It's funny.. The only reason I know who he is is because youtube insists on showing me thumbnails of his stupid 'Ermahgerd!!11!' face as recommended videos for literally any youtube search I perform.. Looking for info on wiring up a dual humbucker configuration? Stupid face... Looking for videos of mixing small batches of grout? You guess it! Stupidface! Searching for a tutorial on replacing T1-11 siding? How about.....STUPIDFACE!

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                    [–]Seiglerfone 14 points15 points  (0 children)

                    Well, in this case, Mr. Beast's brand generated around 2.7 billion views last month.

                    [–]JQuilty 6 points7 points  (1 child)

                    Yeah, RedLetterMedia has also run into bullshit at least once a year they have to publicly pester YouTube about. They're well known but not massive for subscribers, but what subscribers they do have watch nearly everything they upload.

                    [–]Jancappa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

                    I remember Herman Li also got banned on Twitch for playing his own music too.

                    [–]Ted_Striker1 15 points16 points  (24 children)

                    That's absolutely ridiculous. They seem so damned afraid of copyright infringements and the cost of policing it on their platform that they accept any and all claims without questioning them.

                    When will a new site supplant YouTube? It's time.

                    [–]InvaderSM 26 points27 points  (3 children)

                    This is a long video but the title should be enough to answer your question.

                    YouTube's copyright system isn't broken. The world's is.

                    [–]ikariusrb 13 points14 points  (1 child)

                    The further piece is that YouTube adopted a system that's insanely biased in favor of claims of copyright ownership because the big content owners sat down with YouTube and made it clear that they would sue YouTube endlessly unless YouTube adopted this sort of a system. It's very expensive for YouTube to pay people to adjudicate copyright disputes, so they only give attention to the biggest channels. It absolutely sucks, but if YouTube went and tried to "fix" the system to be less biased in favor of claims, the big copyright owners would immediately return to blitzing YouTube with lawsuits.

                    [–]moal09 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    This. If you want to crucify someone, go after the film and record companies.

                    [–]Ted_Striker1 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    It's not about what can be a copyright infringement and what can't, it's about anyone being able to claim copyright and there's no review of it until the video uploader files a counter claim. A claim should be reviewed before it's enacted, not after. That's the problem. Any schmuck can claim copyright on a video right now it seems.

                    [–]BluePinky 45 points46 points  (9 children)

                    Never, because Google decides what content you want to see and directs you where they want you to go.

                    [–]lonnie123 14 points15 points  (2 children)

                    Never, because running a free-to-the-user video hosting site profitably is incredibly difficult

                    [–][deleted] -3 points-2 points  (1 child)

                    As if youtube didn't exist just fine before google bought them

                    [–]lonnie123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                    If I recall correctly YouTube was getting into legal hot water because of the rise of copyrighted material going onto the platform and financial hot water because they hadn’t found a way to monetize the platform profitably yet.

                    Google came in with Ad sense their automated copyright system and fixed both issues

                    [–]Ted_Striker1 2 points3 points  (5 children)

                    Damn it that's true. It will take some huge internet celebrity to willfully transfer to another site to spark the movement. Not sure when or if that will happen.

                    [–]thegodfather0504 18 points19 points  (3 children)

                    Several celebrities. You gotta establish entire ecosystem of content to even consider competing.

                    [–]Blurgas 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                    You'd probably have to get the top 20 creators to jump ship from youtube to have a chance, and they won't do that without some major incentives

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                        [–]Enchelion 5 points6 points  (1 child)

                        It's more that they don't want to "waste" money on moderation and administration. They built a system that, due to scale, is essentially impossible to moderate profitably.

                        [–]Ted_Striker1 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                        with the problem with it being that anyone can file a copyright claim and nobody moderates them. You or I can probably file a claim right now if we wanted and it would take time for YouTube to sort it out the counter claim, and that's if it's a popular channel or band. If it's a smaller channel who even knows.

                        [–]tvgenius 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                        Yup. I had a video I uploaded that 100% qualified under fair use that netted me a copyright strike, but the claim was filed by a company that held zero rights to the content in question in the first place.

                        [–]Rectal_Fungi -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

                        Google will be sure to scare people away from anything new by calling it alt right. Already been happening.

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                          [–]Smagjus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

                          My channel got the big channel treatment once. It got a total of 800.000 views over its lifetime.

                          What happened is that I lost access to it as my normal login triggered fraud detection and required additional information which I didn't own. So I wanted to take down the videos via DMCA and start anew. Instead they threatened to shut down the account I used to file the DMCA request.

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                            [–]matheww19 18 points19 points  (0 children)

                            they will accept any DRM requests without verification and they will take down the video and the channel

                            I made a video of a Breaking Bad themed PC build I did during the pandemic. I used the full extended Breaking Bad theme in it, so I fully expected a claim from Sony Music. Usually they will claim it but not strike you channel, you just cant monetize it, and any ads/revenue will go to them or something to that effect. Again, I fully expected it. What I didn't expect, was some different company, who used a sample of the Breaking Bad theme in some shitty electronic song/remix to claim it and strike my video. It took some disputing and back and forth, but I was able to get it cleared, and the song appropriately attributed to Sony and not this other shady company. If the other company didnt cave though, there wasnt much I was going to be able to do. My video would have stayed down because this other company claimed ownership of the original Breaking Bad theme.

                            [–]boldkingcole 61 points62 points  (20 children)

                            But why are you surprised about this? MrBeast does far more to make YouTube profit through advertising than almost any other creator. His videos have a very wide audience, and are global, he's almost ubiquitous with the YouTube brand now.

                            There is literally no way YouTube can manage the smaller channels without automation so MrBeast gets personal services, most other people get automation. And fair enough.

                            Almost every business that exists works this way; take better care of the people who make you the most money.

                            [–]noisymime 22 points23 points  (4 children)

                            There is literally no way YouTube can manage the smaller channels without automation so MrBeast gets personal services, most other people get automation

                            I don't think it's the use of automation here that people object to, it's that the automation is setup to create outcomes that are completely different to their manual processes and, on the face of it, the law.

                            Of course they're going to have to automate the process given their scale, but that automated process currently isn't designed to get the same outcome as what usually occurs when they handle it manually, seemingly deliberately. It's that difference that people are annoyed about, not the existence of automation itself

                            [–][deleted] 19 points20 points  (2 children)

                            I don't think it's the use of automation here that people object to, it's that the automation is setup to create outcomes that are completely different to their manual processes and, on the face of it, the law.

                            automation is going to give the benefit of the doubt to the person filing the claim because it is less legal risk for youtube.

                            [–]TheNorthComesWithMe 13 points14 points  (0 children)

                            Youtube is not subject to lawsuits if they incorrectly remove videos.

                            Youtube is subject to lawsuits if they incorrectly leave videos up.

                            [–][deleted] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

                            Lindsay Ellis got a dmca claim on her first omegaverse video from some butthurt Karen, but since said Karen filled the form with irrelevant nonsense (for the dmca) they simply rejected the claim and notified Ellis of the attempt 'as contractually obligated '.

                            Edit: for some context, the content of the dmca, as per what was disclosed, included accusations of libel and slander, accusations harassment and potential physical violence, alleged stalking, inciting her (Lindsay's) fanbase to harass a publishing label, etc. Just a single paragraph about intelectual property.

                            YouTube basically said: "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's"

                            [–]Link_GR 6 points7 points  (9 children)

                            Yeah, all big YouTube creators have a YouTube liaison, whereas smaller creators can almost never talk to a real human.

                            [–]Redeem123 19 points20 points  (8 children)

                            Literally every business is going to spend more effort on their biggest clients.

                            [–]Link_GR 13 points14 points  (7 children)

                            However, this kind of all-or-nothing behavior absolutely limits more people from going big on YouTube. If you feel your entire career can be destroyed by some DMCA troll, you're probably not gonna go all-in on YouTube.

                            [–]Redeem123 0 points1 point  (4 children)

                            Sure, but the loss of those small channels isn't a major hit to YouTube's bottom line.

                            MrBeast got ~600m views combined on the 5 videos he's uploaded in the past month. Compare that to CGP Grey, whose videos a very popular on Reddit. He gets a few million views per video, roughly 35 million on the 10 videos he's uploaded in the past year. So it would take 20 channels like CGP Grey an entire year to bring in the viewers that MrBeast does in just a month.

                            And that's compared to a pretty large channel. When you get into channels with only thousands of viewers, it just doesn't make sense for Google to devote that kind of time to them.

                            Don't get me wrong, the system is fucked, but using automation is the only realistic way to handle it.

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                              [–]SOULJAR 3 points4 points  (1 child)

                              Wasn’t this obvious already?

                              [–]Zapdroid 4 points5 points  (0 children)

                              This is completely reasonable and expected behaviour. Bigger channels make more money and are more important than smaller channels, so they get premium treatment.

                              It’s unreasonable for YouTube to give this treatment to everyone, and it’s bad business to not ensure the top creators have it.

                              [–]Piltonbadger 1 point2 points  (1 child)

                              they will accept any DRM requests without verification and they will take down the video and the channel

                              RIP smaller channels. I can't imagine new channels are going to get made if this is the rule going forward.

                              [–]platypus_bear 6 points7 points  (0 children)

                              This has been a thing for years though

                              [–]Hothera -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

                              copyright take down requests are managed by youtube staff themselves and they will ensure the DMCA form has all the required information, evidence, names, everything.

                              This is the case for all copyright claims. Do you think that Youtube somehow doesn't have the required information about Disney?

                              they will act as shield ensuring that the copyright claimant will not get any personal info from the channel (address, personal names)

                              This is the case of any channel unless if you submit a counter-notification to a takedown request. In that case, you're offloading the liability of the disputed work from Youtube to yourself, so Youtube needs to give a way for the claimants to sue you.

                              they will accept any DRM requests without verification and they will take down the video and the channel

                              This isn't true. Maybe what you have issue with is that the verification is automated by ContentID? Content ID claims don't have any real weight behind them though, and you can dispute them for "free." It mainly serves as a warning in case if you accidentally did do something wrong and just want to slightly edit your video.

                              they will not communicate with the youtuber and will show up only if youtuber creates a viral video and gets enough traction online

                              I'm surprised by this, but it seems like the same thing happened to Mr. Beast. If they contacted his channel, why didn't they simply edit the video description even earlier and not have their video taken down?

                              they will force the smaller channel to send personal info to the person sending false DMCA requests which will create a personal threat for the youtuber

                              Again. This is only for submiting a counter-notification. That is a formal legal request, so of course they need your contact information. If you're worried about confidentiality, you can protect yourself by wrapping your channel in an LLC or hiring a lawyer to submit the counter-notification for you, and I assume a channel as large as Mr Beast would do both.

                              [–]Thisisjimmi -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

                              What you're saying is, YouTube works for me beast

                              [–]myrmonden -1 points0 points  (0 children)

                              learned? this is like 10 years old news.

                              [–]trebory6 -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

                              I mean if I got a copyright takedown notice on a video and I relied on the revenue of my channel, I'd immediately go to google and type in 

                              "youtube" "copyright" "San Mateo" site:linkedin.com

                              Go a step further and take that information to ZoomInfo, pay a few dollars, and get direct contact info, and get straight to a human who can solve my problem.

                              And if I was big enough to have a manager or production company, I'd have them do that too.

                              I'm constantly scratching my head about why more people don't do this.

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