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I'm intrigued to hear how you think they should "take care of the problem".

Hire actual humans to review disputed decisions, while putting in a proper appeals process that is also overseen by actual thinking humans.

Maybe you can share your innovative python script that solves the problem for good.

I'm not Google. I don't pretend that all of the world's problems can be solved by computers, and then fail while trying.

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They do have humans, but they make mistakes and have bias. And if we need to cover the amount of content Youtube gets per second we'd need a country of people.

Oh wait, Youtube have just gone bankrupt.

This is about disputed copyright claims, not all videos. Besides, most of these copyright holders probably file hundreds of automated claims (from examples in the thread: chiptune samples, royalty free drum loops, presidential speeches, CC licensed music). If it's obvious that it isn't copyrighted, YouTube can remove the fingerprint from the Content ID system and force the supposed copyright holder to issue a DMCA notice, which is much easier to dispute and works in favour of the uploader.

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