Just as video uploaders can have strikes placed against their accounts, so should users of the ContentID system.<p>A potential solution would be adding a &quot;fraudulent claim&quot; response option (requiring a detailed explanation) for people to reply to takedown&#x2F;monetization notices with. When a ContentID account gets too many of these checks (verified by an actual human being working at youtube) they are cut off from the system for a period of time.<p>If this response is used incorrectly more than a couple of times by a given account, they would be locked out of using it in the future to prevent flagrant abuse&#x2F;bogging down of the system.<p>Potential for liability on false copyright claims will never be added to the law because big entertainment has the government in its pocket. Thus it falls on content hosts&#x2F;providers to force abusive industries to &quot;play fair&quot;.<p>ContentID itself being a terrible system is beside the point, and an argument for another day.