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Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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TL;DR: for a whole decade YouTube allowed a copyright troll to claim all the rights on a recording of a washing machine end cycle chime

The account of the copyright troll is still standing and it's not permanently banned

IMHO in this case YouTube should permanently ban at the first offense any copyright troll that maliciously claim as their property something that's in the public domain

Also: if it wasn't that it affected a big streamer with lots of followers, YouTube would have ignored the problem

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[-] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

What they should do is properly DMCA - then the copyright trolls would be out an extensive amount of money, but no they'll keep on using this completely broke system because the billion dollar major licensing companies aren't negatively affected by any of it.