ContentID a disaster? The number of misidentified takedown rants is extremely small vs. the number of videos processed on YouTube each minute, but this complaint will get blown into a fullscale meltdown of Googles ID system because it plays into the 'Hollywood is bad and ruining everything' mantra all over HN anymore.
According to the stats on Youtube ContentID is processing over 100 years of video every day.
I'd hold off on calling the system a disaster just yet.
Youtube certainly became less attractive for me after the content ID system was put in place. Studying Russian, I liked watching Soviet era films on YouTube. These films cannot be copyrighted by definition, since they were made in USSR. I needed to watch each movie several times. I discovered that often, after going back to a movie that I watched, the ENTIRE channel (account) of a user who uploaded it would be deleted for a copyright violation, together with my NON-COPYRIGHTABLE movie.
The blame should be placed on the end user who is claiming content which they apparently shouldn't be. I'm not sure there is a technical solution around that which can determine if a certain video is inherently 'free' or not.
Essentially, once something was published, it was pretty near free game. 103(4) grants:
> The permission to use scientific, artistic, literary, or oral works (speeches) in film, radio, and on television, provided the original work existed already in a form amenable to such use.
According to the stats on Youtube ContentID is processing over 100 years of video every day.
I'd hold off on calling the system a disaster just yet.