Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process for doxxing purposes

Re:Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process f... by knowtheory on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:25AM (#4385578)

Regardless of the truth of this woman's specific claims... This seems like the point at which youtube has to make decisions about who their automated takedown system actually serves.

Reddit's CEO refers to Reddit as akin to a city-state and himself as mayor. Youtube has essentially the same problems in governance. They have to juggle a host of competing interests ranging from free speech rights, to copyright infringement, to the right to privacy. It has constituents large and small, individual users on up to multimillion dollar companies. Their constituents are not aligned on a host of issues, and this is clearly one of them.

So we know whose side the federal government is on, the question is, whose side is Youtube on?

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Re:Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process f... by icebraining on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:48AM (#4385661)

I'd say they're on the side that doesn't expose them to a massive lawsuit by media companies.

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Re:Abuse of Youtube's copyright infringement claim process f... by devicenull on Wednesday August 15, 2012 @08:53AM (#4385691)

What exactly do you want Youtube to do? Under the DMCA, they don't get to decide what content is infringing or not.

The requirement to provide your name/address is so the DMCA complaints can be handled in a court, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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