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If I’m reading your Medium post right, you created 20 channels and ripped off other people’s Twitch clips into YouTube clips? I’m not sure what you were expecting given that’s not your content.

If you are in California, you should have a right to a copy of your data under CCPA data portability. If you’re in the US but in another state, I’m not sure.

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Exactly. OP very blatantly deserved the ban. They detail exactly what they did in their blog post.

I'm not saying this to attack the OP's character or anything. This behavior is just clearly in the wrong and would and should be banned by any platform. It would have to be banned in order for a provider to retain their DMCA safe harbor protection, but even if it wasn't a legal requirement, there's no doubt it still needed to be and would be banned.

I'm sorry I didn't make this clear in the medium post but thats NOT what I was doing. The shorts channels weren't even monetizable. Please see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919770

It doesn't need to be monetizable. It's wholesale theft, not fair use, and like those terrible shitty "exposure" pages where they steal art, post it on instagram covered in watermarks for likes and views and the generic message "if you want this taken down email us!! 100 emoji 100 emoji"

I responded in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26919770

They're not rips. They are reformatted clips with proper attribution and links to the parties channel.

Most of us on twitch want our clips to be seen in hopes it drives traffic back to our content. There are many shameless channels ripping content and promoting it as their own but mine where never like that and many smaller streamers commented on the videos allowing me to promo them even more.

Once some of the channels took off I even had submissions I was able to add.

Sorry for the ramble but I really don't want people I was just out stealing content...

Also I am in California but unsure how to exercise that right with youtube.

Do you think attributing content means you have copyright?

No. What I’m saying is I don’t even know what I’ve copyrighted as I never received any notification from YouTube about any strikes.

Attribution is irrelevant if you're lifting them wholesale - and you're really stretching the definition of "fair use" since you're not obtaining consent from the actual content creators.

No idea if what OP is doing is or isn't fair use, but fair use doesn't require the content creator's permission, and in fact if you have the content owner's permission you generally don't need to invoke fair use at all (since they are in a position to simply grant you permission to use their content).

There is basically no chance that stealing the entirety of someone else's content (a full clip), no commentary, no parody, just a straight reupload onto their own account for views/subs is fair use.

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