I don't think YouTube is legally required to have such a system. You can still edit your video's description and keywords even while it's down. I used this opportunity to remove the names of specific clones (H*****S and T*******R) from the description and keywords so that the automated scan would have a harder time finding them.
This seems like a lot of work indeed. At this point I think I'm just going to forget about it. I'll keep sending counter notifications as soon as they take down any of my videos but the videos they currently had taken down only had about 300 views each so it's not a huge loss for me or anyone else. If I wanted to I could start hosting videos on my own server, and they'd have to sue me through the Swedish legal system which is a lot more work than they will put in on such a silly matter.
Why would legal requirements be necessary? It'd just be to prevent abuse, thus improving their service. There was no legal requirement for HD videos, they just like providing as good a service as is reasonably possible.
I'm guessing that YouTube legal thinks doing anything to prevent abuse of takedown notices might endanger the safe harbor. So YouTube will probably play it safe and not do anything to prevent abuse of takedown notices unless legally required to.
I was thinking about creating a counter notification but I was afraid they would do just that. It really just doesn't seem worth the trouble to have to keep putting up these videos. The sad part it is I can't really see how this helps Arika. It is not like videos of me playing Lockjaw is killing their sales or anything. All it has managed is to seriously annoy someone who likes their games.
Even forgetting about it might be a chore. As I understand it, in order to avoid a strike on your YouTube account in the case of a repeated DMCA notice, you have to be awake and alert at the time the video is restored so that you can delete it ("This video has been removed by the user") before the copyright owner files another takedown notice. Quad: Do you know at what time YouTube sent the e-mail that the video had been restored?
As far as I know they can't file two takedown notices on the same video without a counter-notice in between. If they do, I don't think they count as two strikes. Also, surely a counter-notice would remove the strike? Might want to hide any other videos that might be on your account and make them unsearchable though.
I'm attaching a screenshot from my inbox. The first three emails, received at ~15:45 are the ones saying that YouTube restored my videos. The other three received at 20:34 are the new copyright infringement emails. image link
Thanks for pointing that out. Sweden: Standard time: UTC +1 hour, DST: +1 hour 6 hours ahead of US Eastern Time (except on dates when DST status differs). So it would have gone up and back down while I was at work. That said, I took my video private as a precaution. It has already fulfilled its purpose on YouTube. EDIT (half a day later): I blanked the description and keywords too, just in case copyright owners can see private videos. I want to get my video off YouTube cleanly, before Arika forces it down again, so that the strike isn't put back on my permanent record.
Another update in the YouTube Copyright wars: I sent in my counter notifications for the second time, and added a question about how my videos could be removed twice by the same company. Now without any explanation they have restored my videos again. This is well before the regular 14 day period so I'm hoping they won't allow Arika to do this again. I am both relieved and surprised. I hope you get your video(s) back too, tepples!
So it appears YouTube does have safeguards against repeated takedown notices about a single work. That feels like a big fat Line Kick for all the garbage that Arika has been sending fan game players. In that case, here's a new plan: THIS FAN GAME VIDEO WILL BE BACK but not necessarily on YouTube. I think I have enough spare GB/mo on pineight.com to host a bunch of two- to five-minute videos using GPL Flowplayer: But two more questions before I begin: I've learned a lot more about AviSynth after having made The BumpityBoo Chronicles. Which were the slickest parts of those videos, and which were most annoying? Who has a photo of Robert Stein of Andromeda Software? IT IS THE TEENS I'm tired of being referred to on Slashdot as "that guy who makes the shitty Tetris clones". I want to make something that uses a Guitar Hero controller.
Make a 2D beatemup (Streets of Rage, etc) with guitar controls required and a rocking soundtrack and you will completely solve all your image problems overnight.
Warner Music Group is claiming copyright infringement against any youtube videos that have their artists' songs as background music, even if it's under fair use by copyright law. these videos are being muted. if any of you put music from major label artists in your videos, you might want to make sure your audio is still there. if it's gone, there's a video that tells you "what to say" to get your audio back (usually works): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lVVZsJNfDE youtube is currently using a fairly sophisticated acoustic fingerprinting process on the audio of newly uploaded videos. if you suspect a song you want to use will be flagged, and you don't want to go through a copyright claim dispute, there's something you can do before adding the audio to the video: 1. get Audacity, load and arrange the song(s). 2. select the entire audio track(s) and go to Effect menu -> Sliding Time Scale/Pitch Shift... 3. adjust "Final Tempo Change (%)" to 1.000 or -1.000, and leave everything else at 0. this is the only method i've found to get past the fingerprint test without completely destroying the sound. i also tried trimming and making uniform speed/tempo/pitch changes, but none of these worked. the tiny tempo change in the working method is far less noticeable than whatever happens when youtube processes your audio anyway, so it's practically insignificant. it equates to ~ 3 to 4 seconds difference from the original in a 10 minute audio track. edit: i've passed the fingerprint test with a final tempo increase as small as 0.5%.
this video explains something everyone can do to help stop automated takedowns: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbYqDJDlKdg an additional video people from the U.S. and Canada should watch (contains a small amount of inappropriate content): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZLDyZKexBs sort of off-topic: http://i43.tinypic.com/b9hwd4.png (inappropriate)
