Not exactly. As long as YT acts the way the DMCA specifies (receive takedown notice, take down content, notify account owner), YT maintains safe harbor protecti

Not exactly. As long as YT acts the way the DMCA specifies (receive takedown notice, take down content, notify account owner), YT maintains safe harbor protection. The problem is that Big Media doesn’t like the idea of safe harbor. It also doesn’t like the potential to have their unlicensed content available while a court decides (they file a DMCA takedown, but the account owner claims “fair use” and YT puts it back up - now it’s online until a court orders it offline.) Hell, Big Media hates the idea of fair use. ContentID came about because Google decided it would be cheaper to just allow Big Media more direct access than to keep defending themselves in spurious lawsuits designed to make example cases and have parts of the DMCA nullified.