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Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream

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Re: Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream

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Post by mirashii »

From a tweet: https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1546419223466999809#m

> & thx for your patience as we sorted it out

But they haven't really sorted it out, have they? False copyright strike claims have been plaguing creators for years. This is just another case of someone needing social media and a huge reach or an inside connection to Google employees to get human eyes on a situation and "resolve" it, with no recourse on the lost revenue from the time it was down and no real guarantee it won't happen again.

Re: Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream

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Post by tmountain »

It's a pretty terrible situation for folks that build their livelihood curating a channel to have to accept the risk that their channel could be taken down at any moment due to a false positive regarding copyright violation. Making matters worse, it sounds like there's no real recourse beyond taking your grievance onto social media and hoping your channel has enough clout to get Youtube's attention.

In this case, it sounds like it was a malicious action by an actual human being, but I've seen a lot of great content creators say things like, "I'm only going to play you 3 seconds of this song to avoid having my channel removed." Seems like there's gotta be a better way.

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Post by corrral »

tmountain wrote: post #5

It's a pretty terrible situation for folks that build their livelihood curating a channel to have to accept the risk that their channel could be taken down at any moment due to a false positive regarding copyright violation. Making matters worse, it sounds like there's no real recourse beyond taking your grievance onto social media and hoping your channel has enough clout to get Youtube's attention. In this case, it…

> Seems like there's gotta be a better way.

Video "channels" should be like podcasts: hosting and discovery largely separate. Subscription, client-side.

YouTube shouldn't exist.

Re: Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream

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Post by BudaDude »

buzzwords wrote: post #6

YT couldn't care less if creators are unhappy with anything at the moment. There is no real competition, so creators have to just deal with it. I hope for a real competition, where there will be a mass exodus.

This is becoming less true, TikTok is a major competitor. Yeah there is Youtube shorts, but its largely just reuploaded TikTok videos.

Re: Lofi Girl: YouTube sorry for taking down music stream

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Post by gravitate »

I downloaded this with YouTube -DLP which is a (working) fork of YouTube-DL, so I have a local copy I can play when coding & can play it in offline environments without needing a YouTube tab open in my browser which gets in the way of web development. It plays in VLC which isn’t as distracting. I love that kind of music for getting in the zone. It’s clear that many people have a tab open listening to this due to the way YouTube shows all the active listeners in the stream. I prefer my local copy though.
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