Also, Drew Gooden this November was not at all the first to copyright strike themselves: I've done that as well, uploading an old CD of my own music which, it t

Also, Drew Gooden this November was not at all the first to copyright strike themselves: I've done that as well, uploading an old CD of my own music which, it turned out, I'd also distributed through CDBaby. I don't remember ever telling CDBaby to attack people on YouTube over my work, much less myself, and I wasn't able to get a satisfactory answer about whether I could withdraw from their automatic listing with ContentID, so I ended up removing the album from CDBaby entirely. I'm sure others have had that experience with CDBaby. Probably some find it valuable: as an individual I can't put stuff into ContentID, so it's one obvious way to jump to the 'abuser' side of the equation. I'm not clear on how you'd tell YouTube that you've licensed your music to somebody and to let their channel/etc play your content, and without that there's no commercial use to the system. Well, except for copyright striking stuff that's not yours and seizing tiny crumbs of ad revenue in however many hours or minutes you get before you're noticed. It's generally old videos so I'm sure the real paydirt here is copyright striking stuff that's old and forgotten. It's still pathetic because stuff like that doesn't get views…