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"ruin" ohhh puleaze.

It turns off monetization for one video. Unless you fuck up 3 times, then maybe it "ruins" your channel.

And if it's a fraudulent strike the person who filed the fraudulent strike gets a strike. Meanwhile you can send as many phony C&Ds as you want.

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> Unless you fuck up 3 times, then maybe it "ruins" your channel.

So by "fuck up" you mean having at least 3 videos on your channel which can receive fraudulent claims. Only stupid content creators make the mistake of having more than two videos I guess.

> And if it's a fraudulent strike the person who filed the fraudulent strike gets a strike.

If only it were that simple. If you try to tell Youtube it's fraudulent you get a response 12 seconds later that they reviewed it and it's valid.

But in this case it wasn't fraudulent. So what is the issue?

I think the issue is all the other cases, where it is fraudulent. For example, millions within 6 months [1].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/6/22820318/youtube-copyrigh...

"The 2.2 million incorrect claims represent less than 1 percent of the more than 729 million total copyright claims issued in the first half of this year, 99 percent of which originated from Content ID, YouTube’s automated enforcement tool. When users disputed these claims, the case was resolved in favor of the uploader of the video 60 percent of the time, according to the report."

You're using numbers from a completely different issue. This isn't the automated Content ID system this is a manual claim.

Most videos like this make the majority of their money in the first few days. If they get demonetized, they're effectively dead. Considering the huge costs involved, that's pretty bad.

The 'fuck ups' can be retroactive through. So you could do something that was totally fine and make multiple videos of said things, then have all of them individually flagged at some point in the future.

Nintendo has done this on multiple occasions.

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