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Wouldn't that just result in the videos being taken down/demonetized?

Not sure how this would harm youtube, wouldn't you just end up silencing yourself?

Baiting fraudulent DMCA claims and then countersuing for lost revenue COULD work, but would likely require more legal fees than would be 'profitable'.



Making one copyright claims on youtube will basically just move the revenue of the ads to the copyright holder.

If you are able to trigger this to three separate claim holders you can actually jam the system into not paying out or any monetization.

I might be explaining this badly so if I am mixexplaining this but Jim Sterling does this.




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