&gt; I mean, YouTube has nothing to gain from making life difficult for content creators - they are acting in this way because they have essentially been compelled to.<p>To be fair to YouTube, their ContentID system is better now than when it was launched. (Now it&#x27;ll actually tell you <i>where</i> in the video the infringing content supposedly is, and allow you to do automatic audio-replacement in some cases.) And to be fair, they&#x27;ve <i>finally</i> implemented an escrow system that can help for <i>some</i> false ContentID strikes.<p>But they&#x27;ve still taken no action I can see to reduce the number of fraudulent ContentID strikes. Creators have a &quot;three strikes, you&#x27;re out&quot; system; ContentID claimants seem to be able to push out millions of false claims with absolutely no response from Google.<p>If I&#x27;m liable to lose access to my account for using someone else copyright without permission, than I see no reason a ContentID claimant should get off scot-free for claiming someone else&#x27;s copyright (or a public domain work) without permission.<p>If there was some enforcement of that in place, I&#x27;d call the system &quot;fair&quot;. As-is, it&#x27;s grossly unfair.