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I always wonder what the hidden backstory is behind these kind of things. Is it: a) They were not aware of the downfall stuff on youtube until this point and,

I always wonder what the hidden backstory is behind these kind of things. Is it: a) They were not aware of the downfall stuff on youtube until this point and, when they discovered it, they were horrified and promptly removed them b) They were aware from the beginning and hated it from the beginning and it's taken them 2 or 3 years to work through the process of taking them down c) They were aware from the beginning and they loved/tolerated it but something changed their mind recently and now they want them removed d) It's not actually the film company filing the notices but some elaborate 4chan troll e) something else There are no boring hypotheses that I can think of. Every hypothesis has something weird associated with it so I'm really curious which it ends up being.

BoppreH 17y ago
It seems the videos were removed automatically. Maybe only now Youtube's software caught that up and the producers forgot to tell that they want to keep the videos. But that's just a wild guess on how things work there.
- arantius 17y ago
  http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=83766 http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&#3... Specifically: What happens when Content ID identifies a match? If Content ID identifies a match between a user upload and material in the reference library, it applies the usage policy designated by the content owner. The usage policy tells the system what to do with the video. So, I'd highly suspect that just now the content owner set the policy. I can't believe that the filter is multiple years out of date, and just now catching up. They wouldn't all be flagged at once, if the processing was that slow.