Blackmailers use false copyright claims to shut down victims' YouTube accounts
We <i>desperately</i> need another major video streaming site. Google has been consistently acting in an atrocious manner for users and content creators, with negligible cost due to their functional monopoly  - even massively popular creators are able to recover their videos only in the rare situation of widespread media attention [1].<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758758" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18758758</a>