As a regular lofigirl listener, i wish youtube dies a painful death. Their claiming/strike system is bringing so much pain to content creators.
As for now, you can also listen on https://lofigirl.bandcamp.com.
In one way, it reads, “if you break the law enough, we’ll disable your account. Naughty naughty!” But then when you look at how the system works, almost anyone can just claim they own a copyright with absolutely no proof which has massive implications to your account whether that means you can have your account deactivated or (even more scary) you can be demonetized or have penalties (aka royalties) paid to the “original” creator.
This whole thing feels like a combination of the Salem witch trials, a social credit score, and The Hunger Games disgusted as a egalitarianism.
There's a lot more at stake than a youtube account. This is true for your ISP as well. Anyone can send DMCA notices to your ISP saying that you've violated copyright with zero evidence. If you are accused multiple times the media industry insists that your ISP must permanently cancel your account and never allow you to have service again. So far, the courts agree with them. ISPs who don't do this are subject to billions in fines.
There are around a dozen lawsuits in the works right now against ISPs who the media industry claims have failed to permanently cancel the accounts of "repeat offenders".
It's insane that we've given anyone the ability to cut someone off from the internet (many people have very few options for ISPs) over unproven accusations alone. You don't get to go in front of a judge and defend yourself. They don't have to prove anything to anyone. They said you did it, so therefore you are guilty and can be cut off from the internet. Never mind that the same companies sending out DMCA notices have a long history of sending false and inaccurate DMCA notices (sometimes out of laziness, sometimes out of incompetence, sometimes to silence criticism and hurt would be competitors).
Naturally ISPs aren't happy about this and right now, they are mostly watching to see how all this plays out in the courts, but again so far the courts are going along with it. Expect to see ISPs increasingly crack down on this to avoid being liable for billions in penalties.
An actual DMCA compliant process is much more user friendly - https://copyrightalliance.org/education/copyright-law-explai...
It's such a good thing this is the only mistake they made, and no legitimate users have ever been taken down by this mechanism!
What is happening to Youtube? I can't even find related content on it anymore (try to watch some song or talk and all the recommendations are about some conspiracy rabbit hole it wants to take me into).
Why has no one competed with them so far in a meaningful way? You would think this would be right up Netflix's alley.
I'm surprised you're mentionning conspiracy stuffs, since they've also been removed a lot.
With the direction they're taking, all amateur content will soon have completely disappeared, making it undistinguishable from an on demand TV channel.
That's the plan I think. In another ten, twenty years or so who is going to remember the law as written over the way that it has been interpreted? This has been an end-run around the law from the beginning.