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Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get (arstechnica.com)
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TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime

The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it's not permanently banned

IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that's in the public domain

Also: if it wasn't that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem

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[–] Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In 2021, YouTube announced that it had invested "hundreds of millions of dollars" to create content management tools, of which Content ID quickly emerged as the platform's go-to solution to detect and remove copyrighted materials.

Content ID was introduced in 2021? Only 3 years ago? I thought it was significantly older.

Wikipedia says 2007.

Dunno if they meant something different or typoed the year.

[–] emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or they just made an announcement in 2021 about their existing content management tools and how much they've spent on them over the years. That's how I read it anyway.

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

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[–] notfromhere@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They announced it in 2021 but invested years earlier is how I read it.