With this getting frontpage HN attention and going viral on twitter, it is likely Youtube will right the situation. But think of all the similar situations that

With this getting frontpage HN attention and going viral on twitter, it is likely Youtube will right the situation. But think of all the similar situations that don't get this kind of attention and the chilling effects of that. We need to move towards an innocent until proven guilty system where content is only taken down after human review and that dramatically punishes false reports (probably in a way that threatens losing ownership of the copyrighted work after repeated false claims). That is the only way to solve this problem, and it isn't going to be solved by Twitch or Youtube taking a stand (because they never will) -- it has to be legislation that changes the playing field. Fair use is supposed to allow you to, say, use a 20 second or so clip of a popular song, no problem. That's impossible these days. The laws as they were originally written and the way they are enforced by big tech have drifted apart dramatically. It's quite sad. Keep in mind that people growing up right now, the only thing they have ever heard about the DMCA is "oh, that's that thing that got my favorite twitch streamer almost banned". Believe me when I say zoomers will obliterate this in 20 years.