Simply complying with DMCA takedowns doesn't mean that YouTube gets to make money from copyrighted material that copyright holders didn't send a takedown for. T

Simply complying with DMCA takedowns doesn't mean that YouTube gets to make money from copyrighted material that copyright holders didn't send a takedown for. That's why they got sued by Viacom and had to make the ContentID system as a compromise. Again, if you want to get rid of a strike, you just have to submit a counternotification. If it's obviously bullshit, then you'll get your video reinstated and you're probably not going to get sued. It sucks that you have to deal with this, but the harsh truth is that you just have to deal with stuff like this as a business owner.