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But you didn't get the 30-60k payout to pay the lawyer.

Is it really that hard to find a lawyer willing to write couple of letters for 50% of ~$50K windfall?

The more serious problem is that during that process they'd be banned from Google. Bus I suppose that might be worth the weeks of work to migrate all the accounts that use it as an email address.

All the money goes to the person making the infringement claim.

YT claims they will reverse the transfer if its counter claimed.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/28/11532734/youtube-complain...

"When both a creator and someone making a claim choose to monetize a video, we will continue to run ads on that video and hold the resulting revenue separately," the company said. "Once the Content ID claim or dispute is resolved, we'll pay out that revenue to the appropriate party."