Caught with Copyright on YouTube

Yes, you’re not supposed to have copyrighted material on YouTube, but if you’ve ever visited the popular video site, you’d never know the better. You’ll see all kinds of copyrighted material including music videos, snippets from movies, commercials, and television shows.

But YouTube does police the content uploaded by its users. I know cause I’ve been busted by the YouTube Content Identification program… a few times. There are a few options for this program. The owner of the original copyrighted material can outright ban your offending YouTube upload or they can monitor the stats of your video.

So far, I have 2 blocked videos and 2 monitored ones, and I won’t aggravate the situation further by identifying which ones. Just know that YouTube is watching…

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