>but if that's correct, signing a waiver won't cost anything. If that's correct, it also doesn't cost YouTube anything to remove it from the contract. Obvious

>but if that's correct, signing a waiver won't cost anything. If that's correct, it also doesn't cost YouTube anything to remove it from the contract. Obviously youtube thinks those terms do something, otherwise they wouldn't mind taking them out of the agreement. I see this all the time when it comes to contract negotiation. If one party has significantly less negotiation power, they're expected to immediately cave on ancillary terms under tortuous logic that they're unimportant. It's fine to accept terms on a "I'm not losing anything, because I don't care about losing it" basis, but never on a "I'm not losing anything, because it doesn't change anything" basis.