The end is only the beginning
A few months ago was my Youtube channel hit with a fraudulent copyright claim. I had released a railway meme video a few days earlier and I guess I had ruffled someone's feathers with it since they filed a copyright claim despite the video falling under fair use according to Youtube's own rules. There was no point in fighting it, I did not even get the chance. I either could remove the video on my own accord to prevent the strike or Youtube would delete the video for me in 7 days. I had no option to appeal, or do anything else. Either destroy my own work now or destroy it later. Despite my objections to this did I decide to honor the request and deleted the video(though not after sending a rather polite but strongly worded e-mail to the claimant in question. They were not too happy about that but if I am honest am I far beyond the point of caring about the feelings of people like this). However this incident did highlight something important to me. Youtube was not reliable a a...