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They somehow have the man power to ban your extension in 2 hours and 30 minutes without an explanation as to why, but than when I get a fake copyright claim on

They somehow have the man power to ban your extension in 2 hours and 30 minutes without an explanation as to why, but than when I get a fake copyright claim on my most popular YouTube video somehow it takes three months, 12 emails and I still don't get the ~$900 lost revenue back.

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segmondy 8y ago
They optimize for their own profit, not yours. ;)
- ozim 8y ago
  Cannot upvote this enough. People complaining about such things think that "customer is always right" where reality is "customer is always right if he pays enough for us to care". Have some reality check. Every company does what is in their best interest not particular customer.
grigjd3 8y ago
I would guess this was automated somehow.
TheAceOfHearts 8y ago
Mirror your videos to other services. If you want to make sure your content is preserved you can upload it to archive.org. There's also a huge difference in scale. There's not that many browser extensions to consider, but they have millions of videos on YouTube. It's not really comparable.
- scrollaway 8y ago
  These are good suggestions but don't help the parent poster's lost revenue.
joering2 8y ago
Hello from the other side! Someone stole our copyrighted audio script from our website and uploaded on their own youtube channel. 4 months later (!!!), about 30 emails back and forth and $1,800 in attorneys fees, we finally gotten it down.
palant 8y ago
I'm not sure what their approach is. My article links to another about fake ad blockers - flagging these usually yielded in no results, neither when flagging trademark infringements nor malicious functionality. The process took months even for the obvious cases, and Google did little to prevent these extensions from being resubmitted. Yet when my article on them got picked up on HN, all of them were suddenly taken down. So it doesn't look like they have any man power whatsoever - the scarce resources they have are busy fighting bad press and threats to Google's business interests.

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segmondy 8y ago

They optimize for their own profit, not yours. ;)

ozim 8y ago
Cannot upvote this enough. People complaining about such things think that "customer is always right" where reality is "customer is always right if he pays enough for us to care". Have some reality check. Every company does what is in their best interest not particular customer.

grigjd3 8y ago

I would guess this was automated somehow.

TheAceOfHearts 8y ago

Mirror your videos to other services. If you want to make sure your content is preserved you can upload it to archive.org. There's also a huge difference in scale. There's not that many browser extensions to consider, but they have millions of videos on YouTube. It's not really comparable.

scrollaway 8y ago
These are good suggestions but don't help the parent poster's lost revenue.

joering2 8y ago

Hello from the other side! Someone stole our copyrighted audio script from our website and uploaded on their own youtube channel. 4 months later (!!!), about 30 emails back and forth and $1,800 in attorneys fees, we finally gotten it down.

palant 8y ago

I'm not sure what their approach is. My article links to another about fake ad blockers - flagging these usually yielded in no results, neither when flagging trademark infringements nor malicious functionality. The process took months even for the obvious cases, and Google did little to prevent these extensions from being resubmitted. Yet when my article on them got picked up on HN, all of them were suddenly taken down. So it doesn't look like they have any man power whatsoever - the scarce resources they have are busy fighting bad press and threats to Google's business interests.