Fair enough. But I think this raises an interesting, and possibly challenging legal question: is a takedown request (including the standing requests that that c

Fair enough. But I think this raises an interesting, and possibly challenging legal question: is a takedown request (including the standing requests that that content id allows) a "notification of claimed infringement" under the DMCA even if YouTube calls it something different? I could see this going either way if it were tested in court (maybe it already has been--I don't know). But if I were YouTube, I would try to keep my content ID procedures in line with the DMCA procedures voluntarily so that I wouldn't have to find out the hard way. The terminology and general procedure that YouTube uses for content ID roughly parallel the process set out in the DMCA, so I'm inclined to think that YouTube is thinking the same thing. I expect that someone in YouTube's legal department already has a memo someplace discussing the implications of this ruling for content ID that addresses these very issues.